To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Paris. Tuesday, October 25, 1932
I waited three days in Dover and was rewarded yesterday by a very smooth passage. But I find I must wait here until Thursday, as trains are full. The first day at Dover, although it was blowing a gale the sun was shining, and I improved the occasion to go by motorbus to Canterbury: pleasant trip, one hour: but the Cathedral and School look (as they are) like a moral ruin: as if a magpie had gone to live in the skull of a giant. Nothing very beautiful structurally, and the life & ornaments gone. G. S
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928-1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: (Postcard) Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY.