To Ralph Barton Perry
C/o Brown Shipley & Co
123, Pall Mall, London, S.W1
Rome. June 3, 1933
Dear Perry,
Here is a letter of Wm James which Mrs. Toy has found among old papers. I don’t remember why I once sent it to her, and I am a little disappointed, because I thought it was another in which James upbraided me for my too “Faustlike nature”. However, at Mrs. Toy’s suggestion, I send this to you, to be annexed to the collection of James’s letters, whoever is in possession of them. I am a rolling stone, and no worthy repository for perishable relics.
Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA