To Mary Potter Bush
Via Santo Stefano Rotondo 6
Rome. March 8, 1946
I have received a great number of visitors, more than I ever did in my life; chiefly army-men who had read “Persons & Places” or “The Last Puritan,” and in one or two cases I have actually made new friends, as you say you have the gift of doing. It has been a great pleasure.
I have been living unterruptedly in this house since October, 1941, and don’t expect to leave it during the rest of my life. Summer here, on the brow of the Caelius, with a green outlook and a horizon as broad as at sea, is quite tolerable.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Seven, 1941-1947. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY