To Edward Joseph Harrington O’Brien
3 Prescott Hall
Colonial Club
Cambridge, MA. [September 1908–January 1912]
Dear Mr. O’Brien:¹
We are besieged at this moment by soi-disant² philosophers from all over the country, and I shall not be my own master until Saturday. If you could come to tea then or on Sunday, at about four o’clock, I should be delighted to see you. Perhaps you would explain to me then some of the things you refer to in your letter, which I don’t quite understand. The tempests of the Olympians to not reach my catacomb.
Yours very truly G Santayana
1. Born in Boston, Edward Joseph Harrington O’Brien (1890–1941) was a poet, editor, anthologist, and critic.
2. Self-styled.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Collection of Alan Denson, Aberdeenshire, Scotland