To Charles Augustus Strong
New York Hotel
Nice, France. December 13, 1922
I am a little less satisfied with Nice than I was when I last wrote. My cough has come on again, and although I hope to stave it off by taking every precaution at once, I think the rapid changes here from the hot sun to the cold and damp night air are rather bad for my sort of complaint: and also for comfort, because I have seldom felt so wretchedly cold as I do here in the evening, in spite of all winter clothes and a great-coat. There is central heating, but not very efficacious at all hours, and I have to wrap up even when the window is closed. However, I am going to stick it out, as I am not sure that I could find anything better, and in a few weeks doubtless the more balmy weather, which I remember at Monte Carlo years ago, will come upon us. Meantime, I am going to try not going out at all at night, but having a light supper in my room, or in the café which there is on the ground floor.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY