To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Grand Hotel
Rome. March 25, 1941
I have not felt like working. The introduction to the proposed new edition of Realms hangs fire, and so does Persons & Places; but the fire still burns under the ashes, and I am confident that it will break out before long into a modest flame of sorts, if not into any great illumination.
Ah, no! Ezra Pound has also been here: he is speaking through the radio for the government!
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Seven, 1941-1947. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, Cambridge MA.