To Ottoline Cavendish–Bentick Morrell
C/o Brown Shipley & Co.
123 Pall Mall, S.W.1
Rome. March 24, 1928
You mustn’t think that my affection for England has in the least cooled: only it has become retrospective, I like to think of what it used to be, and the present and future seem to offer nothing there that can tempt me.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928–1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin TX.