To Josiah Royce
Florence, Italy. April 23, 1897
I was very glad this morning to get your letter and to hear what the arrangements are for next year. The change from Phil I to Phil II is a gain for me, and gives me a more interesting and less exhausting task. The change of hour, however, in my morning course is very inconvenient, as I am never very fit in the early morning, and next winter, when I expect not to be living in Cambridge, it will involve getting up at an absurd hour. I don’t see the justice of the argument that eleven o’clock is filled up. Who fills it up, and why shouldn’t I be one of these, when that is the hour I have lectured at for seven years? I am sorry you have allowed yourself to be brow-beaten by the official sophistry, but I suppose there is no help for it now.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Harvard Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.