To Henry Ward Abbot
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. August 20, 1931
I am afraid I haven’t yet thanked you for the new (older) book of Miss Millay’s poems. It hasn’t the beauty of language and rhythm which I admired so much in the Sonnets, but the title-piece makes its effect, and the whole is what a good modern poetess might be expected to produce: not the splendid paradox of the other performance. But the atmosphere seems to me hardly American. Is she originally English or perhaps Irish?
Yours sincerely,
G.S.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928-1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of (postcard) manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY.