To Sterling Power Lamprecht
C/o Brown Shipley & Co.
123, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Venice, Italy. September 26, 1935
Dear Mr. Lamprecht
Thank you for your letter of Sept. 17 and for the copies of my Hague address. These will still be useful to distribute on occasion, although I believe Obiter Scripta are to appear shortly after all, instead of Edman’s Selections, postponed until next year. These things are disposed by a sort of higher providence or professional soviet, without my knowledge or consent: but usually, I believe, for good reasons which I acquiesce in gladly after the fact. The novel, too, has suddenly been transported to the third heaven of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and I understand that a shower of gold is to fall upon me later from that quarter. Very nice, but how surprising!
Yours sincerely G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.