To Charles Augustus Strong
Hotel Bristol
Rome. May 25, 1927
Thank you for your card. I am glad you liked Cory—not that I altogether like him myself—but he is going to make himself useful in clearing my Augean stables, and it is as well that he shouldn’t be disagreeable to my friends.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY