To William Roscoe Thayer
22 Beaumont St.
Oxford, England. November 26, 1917
It is very pleasant to hear from my friends at Harvard where things probably have moved fast and will move faster: but the past and its good side are secure. I am full of projects and actually carry some of them out: and I lead a life of essential solitude with a little incidental society which suits me very well. The war has intercepted all my plans—even the literary ones, as I can’t fix my thoughts on remote things steadily—but it has stirred me up, and perhaps my thoughts may become truer in consequence.—Thank you many times for your letter.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Two, 1910-1920. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA