To John Hall Wheelock
C/o Brown Shipley & Co. 123, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Paris. June 23, 1936
In regard to a fancy title for the limited edition of my works, would Triton Edition be at all the sort of thing required? It seems senseless, but I understand they all do more or less. What suggested the word to me is that my windows in Rome look down on the Fontana del Tritone and Via del Tritone. The Triton, by Bernini, is well known, and might be reproduced for a frontispiece or paper-cover. Then there is the association with Wordsworth’s sonnet: “a pagan suckled in a creed outworn” and “hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn”.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933–1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ.