To John Hall Wheelock
Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, 6,
Rome. November 5, 1948
From my young friend Lyon, of Austin Texas, who has received the set kindly sent by you of the Triton Edition, I hear the following: “A friend asked me: “Will you cut the pages? The books will be much more valuable if you don’t, you know.” He is now an acquaintance.”
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Eight, 1948-1952. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ.