To Hugo Münsterberg
Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Spring 1899]
A word to say good bye—I am sorry it is not in person—and to thank you for the very generous and friendly appreciation of my poetic venture. Lucifer has been so long in my thoughts that it is a relief to see him petrified in print, and to be free to turn to other projects. If there is anything in the book to give you pleasure the fact is a great satisfaction to me. There is nothing that does one more good than to be able to believe that the more inward and finer part of one’s thinkings have not gone wholly astray.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library, Boston MA