To John Hall Wheelock
Hotel Danieli,
Venice. April 12, 1940
I have had to suspend my reminiscences in order to prepare my reply to my critics in Prof. Schilpp’s volume. It is a terrible job; I believe they are to be 15 professors up in arms; but the six I have so far encountered have not been very combative, and I hope to escape alive.
Prof. Schilpp insists on having a new photograph of me, “as informal as possible”, and I shall have to have one taken here. If it is at all good, I will send you a copy. I wish you could think of something more spiritual and less psychical for the frontispiece of your Triton volume. There are too many portraits, and not very good ones, in that edition; but you might like a new photograph for general advertisement. I will try to look as much like Gandhi as I can, as to the forehead: but I am afraid the figure may rather resemble Chesterton.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937–1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ.