To George Sturgis
Grand Hotel
Rome. June 11, 1941
I also have a fresh passport, for which I had to have a new photograph taken. It came out as from a beauty-parlour, all wrinkles and puffiness removed by magic, and I send you one that you may see that my bad winter has left me as pert as ever.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Seven, 1941-1947. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Location of manuscript: The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.