To Horace Meyer Kallen
C/o Brown Shipley & Co.
123 Pall Mall, London S.W.1
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. September 25, 1926
I live by rule, as in a monastery, never go out in the morning or evening, but have lunch at 12:30 or 1 o’clock at some restaurant, then take a walk until tea-time, and then return to my hotel, where I dine upstairs in my cell. If you will make a similar arrangement for your meals, which they call half-pension, I hope you will come and lunch with me every day, while you remain in Rome, and then I can show you, not the sights, but the pleasant places where I take my constitutional, and we can discuss eternal and temporal matters in the mild golden light of autumn—very like that of Limbo.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati OH.