To C. L. Shelby
6, Via Santo Stefano Rotondo
Rome. May 17, 1951
Dear Mr. Shelby,
Here I have no extra copies of my new book, but nothing is easier than to ask the publishers to send you one from New York, with my compliments.
I know what the thirst for reading is when buying them is impossible. In America I always got on well with public and university libraries, but Seymour, Texas may not offer the same facilities.
I have just discovered an error on p. 169, line 20. “Work” should be arch. Please correct it, and don’t think that I write without making sense.
Please let this note do instead on an autograph in the book
Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Eight, 1948-1952. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.
Location of manuscript: Alderman Library, University of Virginia at Charlottesville