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Abbagnano, Nicola books, xxi, xxii, 14, 15, 123–24, 214, identified, 42n 216, 241 La struttura dell’esistenza, 41, 42n Boston Brahmin, lxii Santayana on, 41–42 Boston fire, 86, 87n, 106, 138 mentioned, 41 Boston Museum, 206 Abbot, Henry Ward Boston Public Library, 179 , student at, xiv, l Chicago, xv Santayana gives advice, xiv–xlvi Chicago fire, 86, 87n, 138 mentioned, xlvi, l, li, lii Degen on, 276–77 ABC (Spanish journal), 252n economy, xxi Abraham (Bible), lvii education in, 4, 227–28, 228n Abschied von der bisherigen Geschichte; Evergreen Park (Chicago), xv, xviii, xxi Überwindung des Nihilismus (Weber), exchange rates, 34 329, 329n, 335, 337 Federal Reserve Bank, 204 Adams, Brooks , xv, xviii, xxi, 257–58 The Emancipation of Massachusetts, 78–79 idealization of, xxii identified, 79n Italians on, 193 his writing, Santayana on, 78–79 in , 65, 90, 139, 195, 197, 199 Addison’s Walk (Magdalen College), 369 King’s Chapel (Boston), 373 Adelphi (Terence), 14, 14n The Little Company of Mary (Chicago), “Aesthetic Way of Life with George 66, 66n, 67, 69, 70, 75n Santayana as Guide” (T. Smith), 95 men, Santayana on, 47 Agostino contro Pelagio (Guzzo), 31, 32n money, 115, xiv, xviii, xxi Albii Tibulli Carmina, Liber Primus III newspapers, 154, 356 (Tibullus), 165, 166n New York, xv, 224 Alcibiades Park Street Church (Boston), 206 and in Limbo, With Three New and , 392 Dialogues, 384 politics, 228, 256 identified, 384n Roosevelt, president, 321 Alden, Oliver (The Last Puritan), 172, 172n and the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 16 Alderman Library (University of Virginia), Santayana, does not return to, xli, 21n, 414 313, 343, 351, 392 Alfonso XIII (King of ) Santayana on, xxi, xli, 17, 120, 123–24, death of, 15n, 19 134, 136, 153, 154, 163, 173, 235, identified, 15n 257–58, 309, 311, 325, 359, 375 mentioned, 14 Santayana’s funds, 85, 283 The Amberley Papers (ed. by B. Russell and P. and Santayana’s works, 24, 85, 91, 129 Russell), xxii, 292, 293n stock market crash of 1929, 375 America(n) Strong on, 8 academics, Santayana on, xxi, 6 and taxes, 204 army men, 108, 139, 156, 159n, 169, Truman, president, 228 195, 197, 199, 200, 207, 224, 395 U.S. Treasury, 109, 115, 125, 128, 142, authors, Santayana on, 123–24 205 526 The Letters of George Santayana

America(n) (continued ) 126, 128, 131, 132–33, 134–35, 141, Washington, D.C., xii 150, 155, 167, 181–83, 185, 186, 189, women’s colleges, 190–91 198, 201, 205, 207, 208, 212–13, and World War II 230–31, 232, 238, 246, 249, 254, 260, finances, xii, xviii 268, 272, 281, 283, 287, 305–6, 330, and Italy, xii, xvii 388 military personnel, xvi, xvii and Santayana’s power of attorney, 150, occupation forces, xii 155, 167 mentioned, 28, 29, 33, 39, 50, 53, mentioned, xxi, 149, 176, 183, 208, 229, 69, 100, 144, 163, 175n 247n mentioned, xiv, xviii, 1, lx, 7, 13, 31, Aquinas, Saint Thomas 32, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43, 45, 47, 50, 55, and Chesterton, 168–69 67, 73, 80n, 158, 159n, 160, 166, 175, identified, 93n 210, 224, 255, 271, 272, 274, 276–77, Summa Theologiae, 93, 93n 278, 287, 295, 331, 379, 382 mentioned, 327 American Literary Manuscripts: A Checklist of The Arabian Nights’ , 148n, Holdings in Academic, Historical, and 149n, 318 Public Libraries, Museums, and Authors’ “Are Sense-Data ‘In’ the Brain?” (Cory), Homes in the United States (ed. Jones, 328, 329, 329n, 343, 344n, 347, 348n 1958; Robbins, 1977), 415, 423 Aristophanes American Literature, 415 identified, 318n American for , 113, 113n mentioned, 318 A. M. Heath & Co., Ltd., 252, 254n The Anatomy of (Reves), 222–23, 223n, identified, 217n 228 Santayana influenced by, xxiii, 5n Andersen, Andreas Martin Santayana on, 216, 363 identified, 94n mentioned, xlii, 300, 327 Santayana’s portrait, 94 “The and ” (Kallen), Anderson, Charles C. Jr., 207n, 226, 233 123, 124, 124n Anderson, Wallace Ludwig Arundel. See Howard, Thomas identified, 393n Ascension Day, 150, 150n letter(s) to, 392 “As in the midst of battle there is room” Angela, Sister, 132, 150, 161, 190, 302, 311, (Santayana), 189, 190n 324, 334, 342, 353, 355 Athens, 221 Anger, Santayana on, 156 Atlantic Monthly, xiv, 332n, 392, 392n Animal , Santayana on, 158, 158n Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts Antony, Saint, from George Santayana (ed. Cardiff), identified, 280n 381, 381n mentioned, 280 Attlee, Clement Richard Apollo Belvedere, 206, 207n identified, 292n Apollo’s temple (Delos), 136, 137n and The Man from Limehouse: Clement “Apologia Pro Mente Sua” (Santayana) Richard Attlee, 291 errata, 12, 14, 20, 21n, 26 Augustine, Saint Santayana on, 30 De Civitate Die, 335, 335n Schilpp on, 30 identified, 32n mentioned, 6, 7n, 13, 13n, 16, 124, 315n mentioned, 31 Appleton, Francis H. Jr. Austen, Jane identified, 125n identified, 93n letter(s) to, 204, 219, 246, 254 mentioned, 93 and Mercedes’s finances, 154 Austria, and World War II, 18 and Santayana’s finances, xviii, 124, Index 527

Ávila identified, 49n and family portraits, 137 letter(s) to, 48, 55, 68 and Persons and Places, 5, 8, 36, 40, 376 and Persons and Places, xiii, 49n, 55, 63, Santayana on, 127–28 278 mentioned, xv, 51, 58, 64, 66, 75n, 78n Santayana on, 49 The Aztec and Maya Papermakers (von his wife, xiii Hagen), 198–99, 199n mentioned, xlvii, 51, 70 Beal, Elsie Grew (Mrs. Boylston Adams Beal), 278, 279n Babbitt (Lewis), 183, 183n Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent Babel, 174 identified, 318n “Ballad of the Goodly Fere” (Pound), 267, Santayana on, 317–18 267n, 283 mentioned, 317 Banco di Napoli (bank), 114, 115, 125, 127, Beck, Maximilian 142, 148, 186, 238, 331, 335, 339, 340 identified, 348n Banfi, Antonio “’s Problem in the Parmenides: and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 Ideas are Beyond Any Quantitative identified, 24n Category,” 347–48, 348n Santayana on, 26, 41 his writing, Santayana on, 347–48 and Santayana’s works, 23, 26 Behmer, Marcus, 317 and Studi Filosofici, 23, 26 Belloc, Hilaire “The Thought of George Santayana in identified, 394n the Crisis of Contemporary mentioned, 394 Philosophy,” 26, 27n Benda, Julien wishes to visit Santayana, 23, 26 and , 288 Baring, Maurice identified, 274n identified, 394n La Grande épreuve des démocraties, 273, mentioned, 394 274n, 288–89, 291 Barlow, Robert Shaw “Bob” Santayana on, 289 death of, xi, 92n mentioned, 289 identified, 92n Benson, Arthur Christopher mentioned, lxvi identified, 93n Barnard College, 52, 52n mentioned, 93 Barth, Karl Benson, Robert Hugh identified, 42n identified, 394n Santayana on, 41 mentioned, 394 Bates, Margaret Jane Berenson, Bernard, lix Discreción in the Works of Cervantes: A Berenson, Mary Whitall Smith (Mrs. Semantic Study, 269–70 ), xlviii identified, 270n Bergson, Henri letter(s) to, 269 identified, 257n and Realms of Being, 321 la fonction fabulatrice, 256, 257 her writing, Santayana on, 269–70 his philosophy, Santayana on, xlii, 370 mentioned, 321n Berkeley, George, his philosophy, xlii Baths of Diocletian, 22, 22n Betto, Bernardino di. See Pinturicchio Bayley, Edward Bancroft Bewick, Thomas identified, 56n identified, 340n Santayana, school friends with, 56, 69 A Selection of Engravings on Wood (with Beal, Boylston Adams Rayner), 340, 340n, 341 and Germany, studies in, 55, 56n, 68 Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 155, 156n his health, 92n 528 The Letters of George Santayana

Bible, 93, 120, 120n 244, 275, 278, 285, 286, 337, 364, 371, Bidwell, David Dudley 373–74, 386 identified, 135n Blue Sisters. See The Little Company of mentioned, 134, 257, 266n, 311 Mary Bidwell, Jane, 266n Boers, 248, 249n Bidwell, Josephine Sturgis [Eldredge] (Mrs. Bolshevism Raymond Bidwell) Bolsheviks, lvi, lxv, lxvi, 248 her children, 135n, 266n identified, 249n gifts, sends Santayana, 154, 229, 244, mentioned, lxiii 310 Bolton, Isabel. See Miller, Mary Britton her husband, 125n, 201 Book-of-the-Month Club, xix, 3n, 87n, 145, and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 146n, 156n identified, 99n “Book-of-the-Month Club News” Josephine, inheritance from, 149, 186 (Genzmer), 153n, 247, 248n Santayana’s heir, xvi, xx, 23n, 98, 118, The Book of the Month Review, 248 122–23, 185, 186, 213, 230 Boston Public Latin School mentioned, 125, 126, 132, 134, 149, 186, Merrill, headmaster of, xlvi 220, 229, 230, 247, 249, 266 Santayana, student at, xlvi Bidwell, Raymond Brewer mentioned, 56n, 69 his children, 250, 257, 311 Boston Public Library, 179 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 186, Bozzo, Ernesto, 259 233 Brahmanism, 97, 97n identified, 125n Bridges, Robert Seymour letter(s) to, 124, 134, 149, 154, 159, 186, identified, 318n 229, 249, 310 on Shakespeare, 318 Rosamond on, 213 mentioned, 351 Santayana, sends gifts to, 154, 159–60, “A Brief of My Opinions” 244 (Santayana), 36, 36n Santayana on, xx British Consulate (), 274, 275, 283, and Santayana’s finances, xx, 185, 198, 290, 304 201, 213, 230 Broad, Charles Dunbar, 34n mentioned, 125, 126, 132, 183, 201, 229, Brooks, C. H., 252, 253 266n Brownell, Baker Bidwell family, 387 identified, 12n Billings, Jennie and Emma. See Williams, “Santayana, The Man and the Kate and Nelly ,” 12, 12n, 31 Birnbaum, Martin his writing, Santayana on, 31 identified, 179n Brown Shipley and Company, xiii, 15, Jacovleff and Other Artists, 317–18, 318n, 15n, 34, 51, 76, 85, 89–90, 101, 114, 319 115, 125, 127, 143, 147, 176, 229, 232, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 238, 268, 271, 274, 275, 283, 286, 1856–April 15, 1925: A Conversation 287n, 290, 293, 304, 309, 330, 347, Piece, 218, 219n 366 letter(s) to, 178, 218n, 317 Bruno, Giordano The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom, identified, 32n 217, 217n mentioned, 31 on Sargent, 218 Bucknell University Press, 402 his writing, Santayana on, 317–18 Buddhism, 97, 97–98n Blackwell’s (bookstore), xxi, xxii, 90, 90n, Bulgaria, xii 224, 226, 229, 232, 238–39, 241, 242, Index 529

Bullard, Francis identified, 381n identified, 179n letter(s) to, 381 mentioned, 178 mentioned, xliii Burke (of Trinity), 366, 368n Caruso, Enrico Burnham, James, 217n identified, 344n Bush, Mary Potter (Mrs. Wendell T. Bush) and Rigoletto, 344 gifts, sends Santayana, 262, 272 Cary, Henry Francis and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 232, The Divine , translated, 136, 137n 256 identified, 137n identified, 140n Castelli Gattinara di Zubiena, Enrico letter(s) to, 139, 164, 223, 255, 262 article on, 350 Santayana, sends gift to, 139–40, identified, 315n 223–24, 226, 255 letter(s) to, 350 mentioned, xix and the Philosophical Congress (Rome), Bush, Wendell T., 140n 315, 315n Butler, Lawrence Smith Catholicism gifts, sends Santayana, 261, 265, 280, Catholic(s), xxv, 26, 374, 394 352, 388 Santayana on, lxv and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 232 mentioned, 11n, 164, 351, 373, 374, 394 identified, 48n Catholic Literature ( journal), 374 letter(s) to, 46, 108, 261, 265, 280, 352, Catullus, Caius Valerius 388 identified, 166n and Persons and Places, 47, 48n, 108–9 mentioned, 165 Santayana on, 47 Cavalcanti, Guido, xli and the Werra (ship), 47, 48n Céline, Louis-Ferdinand mentioned, xvii, xxiv, 130, 312 and anti-Semitism, 32, 32n Butler, Nicholas Murray, 143n identified, 32n Butler Library (Columbia University), 402 L’École des cadavres, 32, 32n Bynner, Witter Les Beaux draps, 32, 32n and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 his writing, Santayana on, 32 identified, 233n Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote, 95–96, 96n identified, 96n Calvin, John, 198n Chapman, John Jay, and The Aryan Cambridge University, 277, 285 Society, lviii Camus, Albert Character and Opinion in the United States identified, 226n (Santayana), 152, 307 Le Mythe de Sisyphe: sur l’absurde, Charles Scribner’s Sons (publisher) 226, 226n, 341, 341n, 357 archives, 411 Santayana on, 341, 343, 357 and copyright, 177, 252 Santayana reads, xxiii and Dialogues in Limbo, 24 Canby, Henry Seidel and Dominations and Powers, 176 identified, 156n and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, xix, and The Middle Span, 155 104, 157, 170, 176, 184, 186, 246, 273 and The Saturday Review of Literature, 15 identified, 7n Canisius, Mother, 355, 370 and The Letters of George Santayana (ed. Cantos LII-LXXI (Pound), 294 Cory), 401, 402, 403 Capitalism, Santayana on, lxvi and The Middle Span, 121, 380n Cardiff, Ira Detrich and My Host the World, xix Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts and Persons and Places, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, From George Santayana, 381, 381n 49n, 55, 56, 56n, 58n, 63, 63–64n, 68, 530 The Letters of George Santayana

Charles Scribner’s Sons (continued ) the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 222, 82n, 86–87, 156, 204, 376 223n, 227 and Poems: Selected by the Author and identified, 223n Revised, xlviii Ciano, Galeazzo and The ’s Testament, xix, 176, 234 The Ciano Diaries, 1939–1943 (ed. and The Realm of , 30 Gibson), 341, 341n, 353, 383 and Realms of Being, 13, 14, 17, 30, 161, identified, 341n 267, 325n The Ciano Diaries, 1939–1943 (ed. Gibson), and Santayana’s finances, 272, 305, 310, 341, 341n, 353, 383 330, 333, 387–88 , Marcus Tullius Santayana’s permanent address, 275 De Amicitia, 195, 196n Santayana’s portrait, 9, 94 identified, 196n Santayana’s royalties, xvi, xix, xxii, Santayana quotes, xxi, 195 xxiv, liv, 23, 24, 33–34, 37, 86–87, 87n Clear text edition, 405 89–90, 91, 105, 127, 130, 148, 188, Clemens, Cyril Coniston 205, 212, 238, 286, 384 his book, 50 and Santayana’s works, 171, 176, 194, identified, 35n 250, 381 letter(s) to, 34, 49, 112, 144, 168, 228, and Wheelock, 204–5, 247, 249, 365 263, 271, 300, 338, 359, 384, 393 and The Works of George Santayana, 37, The Literary Education of Franklin Delano 94 Roosevelt, 339, 339n mentioned, xlvii, 34, 53, 88, 89, 98, 99, The Man from Limehouse: Clement Richard 116, 118, 133, 142, 182, 188–89, 238, Attlee, 291, 292n, 300 241, 267, 291, 303, 309, 312, 319, 346 The Man from Missouri: A Biography of Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Harry S. Truman, 228, 228n, 300 identified, 7n and the Mark Twain Quarterly, 35n, 49, mentioned, 6 50n, 263, 263n Chesterton, Gilbert Keith quotes Santayana, 168–69 identified, 169n Santayana, sends gifts to, 144 Saint , 168–69, 169n and Santayana, 49, 263 his writing, Santayana on, 168–69 his writing, Santayana on, 228, 394 mentioned, 394, 394n mentioned, xx, xxiv, 169n, 407 Chetwynd, Augusta Robinson Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (pseud. Mark identified, 279n Twain), xxv, xlix and Persons and Places, 278 Clough, Arthur Hugh Santayana on, 278 identified, 177n Santayana’s correspondence with, Santayana quotes, 177, 213–14 278 mentioned, 189, 190n China Clough, Francis Gardner Chinese, 255 identified, 190n mentioned, 25 letter(s) to, 189 “Choose, Leap and Be Free,” 229, 229n Cohen, Morris, and Santayana’s Christ Church College (Oxford University), philosophy, lviii 3, 277, 278n, 371 Collingwood, Robin George Christianity, lvii, 221, 245–46, 285, 364 and Croce, 242, 244 Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries An Essay on , 244, 244n of Antiquity (Steiner), 262, 262n The Idea of Nature, 239n, 242, 244 The Christian Register ( journal), 245 identified, 226n Chrysippus, 27, 28n on matter, 242–43 Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer The New Leviathan, 239, 239n, 240, 242, The Dawn of Liberation: War Speeches by 244, 285 Index 531

The Realm of Essence, review of, 242 identified, 337n his writing, Santayana on, 239, 240, Cooper, Robert W. 244, 285 identified, 342n mentioned, 226, 246 The Nuremberg Trial, 341, 342n Collis, John Stewart Cornforth, Maurice Campbell identified, 292n identified, 361n While Following the Plough, 291, 292n Science and Idealism, 361, 361n “Colorful Crimson History Began with Off- Science Versus Idealism, 360–61, 370 Color Magenta …” (Sturgis), 257, Cory, Daniel MacGhie 258n his age, 272n Colum, Mary Gunning, review of The his aunt, 187 Middle Span, 156n and Bermuda, xxii Columbia University, liii, 41, 44, 52n, 121, and Cambridge University, 277 121n, 143n, 145, 166, 187, 414, 421 his career, Santayana on, 38 Common law, 185, 186n is Catholic, 230 , Santayana on, 25, 203, 235, and Columbia University, liii, 121, 121n, 256, 354, 359, 389 187 The Complete Poems of George Santayana and Cortina d’Ampezzo, xxiv (ed. Holzberger), lxiv, 166n, 402 death of, 402 Conant, James Bryant and employment, 37–38 identified, 38n and England, xxii, 268, 268n, 271, 274, letter(s) to, 43 276, 309, 371 Santayana on, 37 his finances, xiii, xiv, xvi, xxii, liii, and Santayana’s fellowship, 37, 38, 60–61, 63, 66, 89, 188, 189, 190–91, 43–44 238, 293, 354, 383, 386 Connolly, Cyril Vernon his first marriage, 187 Horizon, editor of, 145n, 206, 209, 210 his friend(s), 161 identified, 203n his future, 120–21, 127 The Unquiet Grave, A Word Cycle, 203, identified, 8n 203n, 206–7, 209, 210, 226, 266 his in-laws, 276–77 his writing, Santayana on, 206–7, 209 a lecturer, 160, 161n Constable and Co., Ltd. (publisher) letter(s) to, 8, 14, 23, 31, 33, 36, 37, 51, and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 104, 52, 58, 60, 63, 86, 98, 120, 126, 130, 209 136, 140, 145, 147, 160, 166, 167, 175, and Kyllmann, 130n 181, 190, 200, 207, 225, 229, 238, 243, and The Last Puritan, 253 260, 267, 271, 274, 275, 277, 285, 286, and The Middle Span, 339, 379n 291, 292, 297, 305, 308, 312, 315, 319, and Persons and Places, xiii, xv, xix, 49n, 326, 328, 330, 334, 337, 339, 341, 56n, 58n 343, 347, 353, 360, 362, 369, 383, 421 and The Realm of Truth, 213–14 and living arrangements, xxii and Santayana’s royalties, 24, 33–34, his marriage, xvi, 86, 120 244, 347 his mother, 187, 189n and Santayana’s works, 25n, 194, 363, publications 381 “Are Sense-Data ‘In’ the Brain?,” Santayana’s works, translations of, 177, 328, 329, 329n, 343, 344n, 347, 337, 391 348n mentioned, xlvii, 90, 159n, 244, 272, The Idler and his Works, and Other 285, 287, 372 Essays, 130n Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish The Letters of George Santayana, 401, Figures of Speech, or, Figures of Thought, 402, 403, 404, 408 337n “Michael” (unpublished), lv, 38, 38n 532 The Letters of George Santayana

Cory, Daniel MacGhie (continued ) 126, 138, 146, 186, 188, 190, 191, publications (continued ) 196, 201, 204, 205, 207–8, 209n, “The Notion of a Physical Object” 212–13, 229–30, 287 (lecture), 41, 42n and The Poet’s Testament, 165n “ and Knowledge” and The Realm of Matter, 14, 187 (unpublished), 38 and The Realm of Spirit, xliv Santayana’s philosophy, articles on, and Realms of Being, 325n 14 and Santayana’s correspondence, 23, Santayana: The Later Years, A Portrait 24, 401, 402, 403, 408, 411 with Letters, 7, 24, 25, 420, 422, and Santayana’s death, xliv 423 and Santayana’s fellowship, 37, 38, “Some Observations on the 43–44 Philosophy of George and Santayana’s finances, 181–83, Santayana,” 14 229–30, 271, 275, 290, 291, 305, “The Transition from Naïve to 330–31, 333–34, 335, 338, 340, Critical Realism,” 285, 286n 354 and Rome, xxiv Santayana’s literary executor, 19n, B. Russell, interviews, 328, 334 66, 381, 414 and Russell’s philosophy, 230 and Santayana’s philosophy, liv–lv, Santayana 187 advises Cory, xiv and Santayana’s royalties, xiii, xvi, allowance from, xiii, xiv, 14, 15, 23, xx, xxii, 23, 24, 33–34, 35, 36, 34, 126, 141, 204, 274, 283, 347, 37, 56n, 58, 60–61, 63, 66–67, 386 82, 86–87, 87n, 88, 89, 90–91, and Atlantic Monthly, xiv 98, 103, 105, 106, 120, 126, 130, and books, xxii 137, 138, 146, 147, 186, 188, 190, correspondence trouble, xiv, xv, xvi 191, 196, 201, 204, 205, 207–8, on Cory, xx, xxiv, lv, lxv, 37–38, 89, 209n, 212–13, 229–30, 238, 249, 164, 187–88, 230, 271, 285–86, 286, 287, 291, 297, 303, 384, 388 383, 386, 388 Santayana’s secretary, liv, lxiv, 8n, on Cory’s writing, 14, 87, 274, 344, 44, 89, 187–88, 230, 401–2 347 and Santayana’s will, 37, 89, 91, 126, and Dialogues in Limbo, With Three 130, 188, 191 New Dialogues, 363 and Santayana’s works, lii–liv, 91, and Dominations and Powers, 126, 98, 103, 120, 126, 160, 165, 176, 277, 362 177, 188, 232, 261, 374, 381, 386, friendship with, xx, xlvii, liii–lv, 8n, 392, 414 383 and Santayana’s writing , 136 gifts, sends Santayana, 137, 140, visits Santayana, xxiv, 330–31, 334, 167–68, 190, 201, 208–9, 211–12, 352, 353–54, 354n, 358, 360, 226, 229, 238, 244, 259, 260, 361, 362, 363, 369, 370, 374, 267–68, 271 383, 386, 388 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, and Scepticism and Animal Faith, 187 246, 251, 259, 287 and sense-data, 329 and manuscripts, xxiv and Strong, xx, 164, 230 and The Middle Span, 123, 137n, 188, Strong, allowance from, liv 196, 365 and Strong’s International Philosophical and My Host the World, 331, 335, 354, Fellowship Fund, xiv, xxii, 33, 34n, 358, 361, 362, 369–70, 373 37, 38, 44, 66, 86, 89, 188, 190–91, and Persons and Places, xvi, 5, 8, 37, 209n, 230, 238, 260, 277, 291, 309, 58, 60–61, 63, 66-67, 82n, 87, 362, 363n Index 533

Strong’s secretary, liv, 8n, 44, 187–88 and Le Balze, 149n and G. Sturgis, 23, 61, 63, 66, 86, 105 mentioned, 149n and transcription, 404 Cuevas, Margaret Strong de (Mrs. George travel plans, 209, 209n, 238, 244, 259, Cuevas) 260, 268, 268n, 271, 285 her father, xlviii his visa(s), xxii identified, 368n and Wheelock, 8, 86, 88, 103, 106 and Le Balze, 149n mentioned, xvi, xxiii, xxiv, 23, 25, mentioned, 149n 31, 63n, 88, 95, 108, 122, 164, 167, Cumbermould, Marion “Mollie” Cooke, 190n, 242, 244n, 276, 332, 386, 415, 99n 419, 423 Cutting, William Bayard, xx Cory, David (Daniel Cory’s father) and British speech, 147 his first wife, 187, 189n Dante identified, 147n Divina Commedia, 136, 137n his sister, 187 identified, 137n mentioned, 187 Santayana quotes, 138–39 Cory, David M. (Daniel Cory’s brother) Vita Nuova, 351, 352n identified, 147n mentioned, xli mentioned, 187 Darwin, Charles Robert Cory, Margaret “Margot” Degen Batten identified, 222n (Mrs. Daniel Cory) and Patagonia, 238n and England, 268n, 371 Santayana on, 221 her marriage, 120–21 David Copperfield (Dickens), 241, 241n, 378n Santayana on, 164 Davy, Charles and Santayana’s correspondence, 411 identified, 308n Santayana’s literary executor, 402 The Three Spheres of Society, 308, 308n, and transcription, 404 315, 319 mentioned, xvi, xxii, 86, 87n, 147, 164 his writing, Santayana on, 315 Couchoud, Paul Louis The Dawn of Liberation: War Speeches by the Jésus, le Dieu fait homme, 297–98, 298n Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill Santayana on, 297–98 (Churchill), 222, 223n, 227 Cram, Ralph Adams The Deacon’s Masterpiece, or the Wonderful identified, 111n One-Hoss-Shay: A Logical Story Santayana on, 111 (Holmes), 11, 11n, 195 Credito Italiano (Rome), 5, 9, 10, 22, 33, De Amicitia (Cicero), 195, 196n 35–36, 40, 45 De Civitate Die (Saint Augustine), 335, 335n The Crimson (Harvard newspaper), 217, “Dedication of the First Sonnets to a friend 217n, 240, 245, 257, 258, 258n, 288 on the eve of his marriage” The Criterion ( journal), lv (Santayana), 137n Crito (Plato), lix Defoe, Daniel Croce, Benedetto identified, 344n identified, 18n Robinson Crusoe, 344, 344n Santayana on, 17 Degen, C. (Cory’s father-in-law), 274, 275, mentioned, 41, 242, 244, 291, 309 276–77 Cronos: An International Quarterly Review Degen, Mrs. (Cory’s mother-in-law), 277 ( journal), 364, 365n Delos (Greece), 136, 137n Cuba, 216 The Delphic Club (Harvard University), Cuevas, George 233 identified, 368n Democracy, Santayana on, xix, xxi, lxvi, 227, 288–89 534 The Letters of George Santayana

Democritus Discreción in the Works of Cervantes: A identified, 286n Semantic Study (Bates), 269–70 mentioned, xlix, 285 Divina Commedia (Dante), 136, 137n Demosthenes The Divine Comedy (trans. Cary), 136, 137n identified, 246n Do I Wake or Sleep? (Bolton), 325, 326n, Santayana quotes, 246 326–27 De Ruggiero, Guido The Domain of Reality (Gerber), 313–14, 315n The History of European , 291, Dominations and Powers (Santayana) 308, 309, 319 and Cory, 126, 277 his writing, Santayana on, 308 Santayana on, 175, 239–40, 275, 280, Descartes, René 292, 307, 324, 352, 362 identified, 325n Santayana works on, 97, 99, 151, 172, his philosophy, xlii 176, 194, 200, 236, 236n, 244, 246, and Santayana, xxiii 260–61, 264, 284, 289, 303, 307, 309, Santayana on, 324 325n, 331, 337, 358, 376, 394 Dewey, John and Tindall, 178, 194, 243, 304, 340 identified, 248n war, effects on, 113 and The Philosophy of , 13, 13n mentioned, xi, xx, xxii, xxiii, 8, 47, 93, Santayana on, 27 276n, 305n, 308n, 332, 360, 383, 395n mentioned, 17, 30, 31, 247 Domus Spinozana, lix, 274, 274n The Dhammapada, 97, 98n Don Quixote (Cervantes), 95–96, 96n, 148n, on George Santayana (ed. Lamont), 270, 295, 304 lxiv Dromio (The Comedy of Errors), 294, 294n Dialogues in Limbo (Santayana), 24, 25n, 31, Dunstan, Rev. Mother, 66, 70, 82n 104, 207, 210, 363, 364 Dialogues in Limbo, With Three New Dialogues (Santayana), 331, 332, 332n, 335, 340, “The Editing of Historical Documents” 363, 374, 384, 384n, 392 (Tanselle), 411 Dickens, Charles Editorial Sudamericana (publisher), 389, David Copperfield, 241, 241n, 378n 390, 391 identified, 93n Edman, Irwin mentioned, 93 at Harvard, 140 Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, xlvii and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 232, Dickson, Carl Byron 247–48 identified, 172n identified, 140n letter(s) to, 171 “A Philosopher and the Four Gospels,” Santayana on, 171–72 247, 248n Dictionary of American Biography, 410 The Philosophy of Santayana, 140n, 273 Diderot, Denis and The Realm of Spirit, 248 identified, 326n Santayana on, 247–48 Le Neveu de Rameau, 325, 326n and Santayana’s philosophy, 18 Diocletian, 22n mentioned, 17, 18 Diogenes Egotism in German Philosophy (Santayana), identified, 28n 16, 24, 25n, 164, 216, 217n mentioned, 27 Einstein, Albert Dionysius the Younger and Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great identified, 181n Man, 327, 330 mentioned, 180 identified, 328n “Discours à Madame de la Sablière” (La Santayana on, 330 Fontaine), 145n Santayana reads, xxiii his theory of matter, xxiii Index 535

Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man and J. Russell, 99, 99n (Marianoff and Wayne), 327, 330 Santayana lectures at, 3 Einstein, His Life and Times (Frank), 327, St. John’s Garden, 371 328n Santayana on, 152, 173, 261, 274 Eldredge, Arthur Jr. and Santayana’s funds, 85 identified, 135n and Strong’s International Philosophical photograph of, 266 Fellowship, xiv, 44 Santayana on, 266 and taxes, 209 mentioned, 134, 266, 266n, 311 and World War II, 24, 175n Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns] mentioned, xix, 136, 175, 210, 224, 268, and The Criterion, liv–lv 271, 272, 278, 347 “,” translation of, 315, 316n, English Reformation, 93, 93n 319 En la mitad del camino (trans. Lecuona), identified, 38n 386, 386n, 387, 389 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Epicurus 360, 361n identified, 121n his poetry, 272, 315, 319 mentioned, 121 mentioned, 38 Escalera, Mercedes de la Elton, William R. her age, 149, 162, 268 identified, 380n her allowance, 162, 208, 230, 250 letter(s) to, 380 and Appleton, 154 The Emancipation of Massachusetts (Adams), her birthday, 252, 252n 78–79, 79n her finances, 176, 268 Emerson, Ralph Waldo identified, 21n identified, 256n Josephine, legacy from, 135, 149, 176 Self-Reliance, 256, 256n letter(s) to, 73 Empiricists, Santayana on, 339 Santayana sends money, 134–35, 149, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 422 205 England and Santayana’s living arrangments, 51, British domination, Santayana on, 53, 58, 59 193–94 G. Sturgis sends money, 21, 50, 53, British philosophy, Santayana on, 243 134–35 British speech, 147 R. Sturgis, legacy from, 135, 149, 176 Cambridge, 206 mentioned, xiii, 70, 76n, 101, 159n and censors, 5 An Essay on Metaphysics (Collingwood), 244, and Egotism in German Philosophy, 164 244n English names, 22, 157 Essence, Santayana on, xlii, 4, 27, 247, 295, and government, xiv, lxvi 314, 344, 345, 347, 348n, 370 High Church party (Church of “The Essential Santayana” (Howgate), 263, England), 156, 156n 263n Italians on, 193 (Spinoza), 5n The King’s Arms (Sanford), 157 Europe, xxii, 192, 220, 321–22, 350, 394 King’s College, 129 Existence, Santayana on, 4, 78, 349 London, Santayana on, 110 London fire, 86, 87n, 138 identified, 42n Natural History Museum, 3 philosophical movement, xxiii Oxford Existentialism Addison’s Walk, 369 Santayana on, xxiii Christ Church College, 3, 371 mentioned, 382 Iffley Church, 371 “Ezra Pound” (Eliot), translation of, 315, Magdalen College, 369, 371 316n, 319 536 The Letters of George Santayana

Fact(s), Santayana on, 4, 349 Fadiman, Clifton Paul identified, 3n Garcia, Lieutenant letter(s) to, 3 identified, 221n Reading I’ve Liked, 4n letter(s) to, 221 Gardiner, Robert Hallowell Jr. Fascists, lvi, lxiii identified, 156n identified, 248n mentioned, 155 and World War II, 341 Gardner, Isabella Stewart mentioned, 389 identified, 368n Feuer, Alfred mentioned, 367 identified, 87n General Education in a Free Society: Report of visits Santayana, 86 the Harvard Committee, 223, 223n, 226, Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, and his philosophy, 227–28 xlii Genetic text edition, 405 Ficke, Arthur Davison, lix The Genteel Tradition at Bay (Santayana), 273 Fiera Letteraria (Italian weekly), 315, 315n, Genzmer, George 319 Book-of-the-Month Club News, 247, 248n Figures of Speech, or, Figures of Thought mentioned, 248n (Coomaraswamy), 337n George Santayana (Howgate), lxiv, 263, 273 Flaubert, Gustave “George Santayana” (Shippen), 117, 117n identified, 209n George Santayana: A Biography (McCormick), mentioned, 209 xlv, lxiv Fogg Museum (Harvard), 179, 179n George Santayana’s Marginalia: A Critical The Folded Leaf (Maxwell), 289–90, 290n, Selection (McCormick, forthcoming), 291, 323 399 “For George Santayana” (Henrich), 171–72, Gerber, William 172 n The Domain of Reality, 313–14, 315n France, xxi, 394 identified, 315n Francesca, Piero della letter(s) to, 313, 349 his art, 220 philosophy, and the history of, 349 identified, 221n his writing, Santayana on, 313–14 Freedom, Santayana on, 123 Germany Freeth, Sergeant, 122 Germans, 164, 193 Freidenberg, Harry A. Santayana, student in, xiii, xli, xlv helps Santayana, xvii Santayana on, 216 identified, 110n and World War II, xii, xix, 18, 171n, 216 and The Middle Span, 110, 121 mentioned, 55, 56, 56n, 68, 166, 199, Santayana, gives presents, 121, 153 350 and Santayana manuscript, xvii Gibbon, Edward mentioned, 122, 129, 130, 145, 147 identified, 293n French , 325 mentioned, 292, 293, 293n Freyer, Grattan, 24 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von “From to The Last Puritan” identified, 200n (Vivas), 12, 12n, 26 mentioned, 199 Frost, Robert The Golden Day (Mumford), lxi, lxv identified, 360n Goldsmith, Arthur Jacob mentioned, 359 identified, 301n Fuller, Benjamin Apthorp Gould “Bags,” letter(s) to, 301 and Harvard, lx his movement, 301 Fullerton, William Morton, xlviii Index 537

pupil of Santayana, 301 The Harvard Union, 233 mentioned, 306 Harvard University Library, 233, 331 The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Hasty Pudding Club, xlvi Time of Suleiman the Magnificent and Helmer, 184 (Lybyer), 299, 326, 327 Houghton Library, 402 Gowen, Franklin C., 199, 200n Kallen, student at, lviii Green, Andrew Hugh Lampoon building, 215, 217n identified, 368n Leverett House, 206, 207n mentioned, 367 Loeser, student at, lix Grew, Jessie, 48, 49n, 55 Lowell, president of, lx, 179, 350 Grew family, xiii Moore, professor at, 327 Guanda, Ugo motto of, 109n identified, 322n and Perry, 215, 288 mentioned, 322, 328 Philosophical Club, 6 Guénon, René photographs of, 220 identified, 313n Prescott Hall, 102, 102n La Crise du monde moderne, 312, 326 Santayana his writing, Santayana on, 326 classmates, xxi Guzzo, Augusto and the class of 1886, 321 Agostino contro Pelagio, 31, 32n and his fellowship, 37, 38, 38n, 44, and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 101, 201 identified, 24n graduates, xiii I Dialoghi del Bruno, 31, 32n on Harvard, xxii and The Middle Span, 253 professor at, xli, lxi Santayana on, 23, 41 retirement from, lviii, lix, lxi mentioned, 23 Santayana on, 220, 227–28 Stoughton Hall, lived in, 137, 137n student at, li Hamlet, 270, 270n, 318, 318n and R. Sturgis, liii, 183–84, 215, 216 Hamlet (Shakespeare), lii, 318, 318n and Three Philosophical (Santayana), Hardy, Thomas 269, 272 identified, 360n and Walker, 111 mentioned, 359 and Winthrop, 178, 179 Hartshorne, Charles mentioned, 94, 97, 207, 226, 256 identified, 27n Harvard Lampoon, xlvi Santayana on, 26 Harvard University Press, 298, 299, 303 “Santayana’s Doctrine of Essence,” 26, Hasty Pudding Club, xlvi 27n Hawthorne, Nathaniel, xlvii Harvard University Hazen, Benjamin F. Abbot, student at, xlv, l identified, 365n of, 206 “The Last Puritan,” 364, 365n Conant, president of, 37, 38, 43–44 letter(s) to, 364 The Crimson, 217, 217n, 240, 245, 257, his writing, Santayana on, 364 258, 258n, 288 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich The Delphic Club, 233 identified, 286n and Edman, 140 Popper on, 285 Fogg Art Museum, 179, 179n mentioned, 308, 314, 339 General Education in a Free Society: Report Heidegger, Martin of the Harvard Committee, 223, 223n, identified, 42n 226, 227–28 and Les Temps modernes, 382 Harvard Lampoon, xlvi his philosophy, Santayana on, xlii 538 The Letters of George Santayana

Heidegger, Martin (continued ) Hopkins, Gerard Manley Santayana reads, xxiii identified, 274n mentioned, 41, 357 his poetry, 272 Helmer, Edgar, 184, 207 Horizon (magazine), 144, 145n, 203, 206, Hemingway, Ernest Miller 209, 210, 274 identified, 217n Hotel(s) mentioned, 216 Grand Hotel (Rome), xii, xiv, 15, 19, 52, Henrich, Edith Dodd 54, 55, 61, 63, 72, 225 “For George Santayana,” 171–72, 172n Grand Hotel Palazzo della Fonte “The Inmost Reason,” 172, 172n (Fiuggi), 22, 32, 36, 40, 42–43, 58 Santayana on, 171–72 Hotel Bernini Bristol (Rome) 22, 39 Heraldry in England (Wagner et al.), 341n Hotel Bristol (Lugano), 42, 45, 53, 55 A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems Hotel Bristol (Rome), xii, xv, xvi, 19, (Santayana), 245, 245n 20n, 22, 39, 72, 82n, 100 Hexner, Erwin Paul Hôtel des Trois Couronnes (Vevey), 32, identified, 240n 32n, 45, 67 letter(s) to, 239 Hotel Victoria (Glion-sur-Montreux), 36 Higgs, Arthur Hibble Houghton Library (Harvard University), identified, 370n 402 and My Host the World, 369–70 Housman, [A]lfred [E]dward, his sexual High Church party (Church of England), orientation, l, lii, lxiv 156, 156n Howard, John Galen, letter(s) to, 6 Hilda, Mother, 222, 227, 319 Howard, Thomas History, Santayana on, 79, 138 and art, 342 The History of European Liberalism (De identified, 343n Ruggiero), 291, 309, 319 Howgate, George Washburn A History of (B. Russell), “The Essential Santayana,” 263, 263n xxiii, 224, 225n, 226, 232, 259, George Santayana, 263, 273 328–29 Santayana on, 263 Holmes, Oliver Wendell Hull, Cordell, 46n The Deacon’s Masterpiece, or the Wonderful Humanitas, Rivista bimestrale di cultura One-Hoss-Shay: A Logical Story, 11, 11n, (Italian review), 312, 313 195 Humanities Research Center (University of identified, 28n at Austin), lxiv, 402 and The Life of Reason, 27 Hungary, xii mentioned, 367 Husserl, Edmund Holmes-Pollock Letters (ed. Howe), 27, 28 identified, 357n Holzberger, William G. mentioned, 357 The Complete Poems of George Santayana, Huxley, Aldous Leonard lxiv, 414 identified, 282n and Persons and Places: Fragments of The , review of, 282 Autobiography, lxiv and Santayana’s correspondence, 402, 403 I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Certain and transcription, 416 Eminent Men and Women of our Time Homer (ed. Fadiman), 36, 36n identified, 235n The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Santayana) mentioned, 235 contract for, 196 Hook, Sidney, lvii, lxvi copies of, Santayana has sent, 232, 241, 245, 273, 284, 338 Index 539

and Cory, 287 Fiuggi, xii, 22, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41, errors in, 241–42, 246, 253, 258–59 42–43, 46, 56, 58 and Kyllmann, 209–10 and government, xii L’Idea di Cristo nei Vangeli o Dio nell’uomo Grand Hotel Palazzo della Fonte, 32, (Guzzo), 196, 196n 36, 40, 42–43, 58 proofs, 158, 170, 180, 184, 186, 197, 251 inflation, xviii reviews of, 232, 242, 247–48, 250, 254, mail restrictions, xiv, xvii, xxi 256, 262, 282 and Mussolini, xv, lxiii royalties from, 191, 205, 272, 286, 319, and , 26, 41 320 and Pound, 23, 24n Santayana finishes, 206 Rome Santayana on, 93, 97, 114, 121, 156, 161, American soldiers in, 195 174, 239, 242, 264, 267, 282, 298 Banco di Napoli, 114, 115, 125, 127, Santayana works on, 104, 126, 128, 142, 148, 186, 238, 331, 335, 129–30, 194, 221 339, 340 and Tindall, 99, 114n, 142, 146, 147, 165 Baths of Diocletian, 22, 22n translations of, 337, 337n, 384, 385, bombed, xv 389–90, 391 British Consulate, 274, 275, 283, mentioned, xi, xv, xvii, xix, 85, 85n, 87, 290, 304 93, 113, 143n, 146n, 152, 157, 169, 176, Caelius, xiv, 64, 65n, 69, 72, 112, 200–201, 207, 231–32, 239n, 248, 224, 389 272n, 364 Colosseum, 84n The Idea of Nature (Collingwood), 239n, 242, conditions in, xi, xvii, xxi, xxii 244 Credito Italiano, 5, 9, 10, 22, 33, I Dialoghi del Bruno (Guzzo), 31, 32n 35–36, 40, 45, 65, 71 “The Idler and his Works” (Santayana), 129, Grand Hotel, xii, 15, 19, 52, 54, 55, 130n 61, 63, 72, 225 The Idler and his Works, and Other Essays (ed. Grand Hotel Flora, 331, 332n Cory), 130n Hotel Bernini Bristol, 22, 39 Iffley Church (Oxford), 371 Hotel Bristol, xii, xv, xvi, 19, 20n, Indian(s), 3, 216 22, 39, 82n, 100 Industrialism, Santayana on, lxvi Hotel Majestic Roma, 331, 332n “The Inmost Reason” (Henrich), 172, 172n The Lateran, 84n, 85n, 132 Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (B. Russell), The Little Company of Mary, xi, xv, 14, 15, 15n, 31, 33, 34 xxi, 60, 61n, 61–62, 65, 66, 67, International Philosophical Fellowship 68–69, 70, 72, 75n, 78n, 202 Fund, 33, 34n, 37, 38, 44, 66, 86, 89, occupation of, xvii 188, 190–91, 209n, 230, 238, 260, 277, Pincio, 29, 29n 291, 292n, 309, 362, 363n political situation in, 154, 255, 389 Interpretations of Poetry and Porta Metrona, 311, 312n (Santayana), 264, 265n Quirinal, 11, 11n Intuition, Santayana on, xlii Roma Termini (train station), 22, Ireland, 209 22n Italy Santayana on, 133, 194, 281, 388 Americans in, 65 Santayana’s residency, xii, xiv, xv American soldiers in, 197 Santo Stefano Rotondo, 64, 65n, 69 Calabria, 221, 222n seven hills of, xiv, 11n, 65n, 72 and censors, 5 Spanish consulate in, 76n Cortina d’Ampezzo, xxiv, 22, 58, 376 St. Peter’s Church, 22, 22n currency, xviii, 9n, 96, 109–10, 115, 125, and transportation, 150 133, 232, 238, 257, 312, 341 Villa Celimontana (park), 70 540 The Letters of George Santayana

Italy (continued ) Japan Rome (continued ) atomic bombs dropped on, 184, 186n Villa Borghese, 29n, 386, 387n Japanese, 3, 255 Villa Mattei (park), 70 and World War II, xii, xix and World War II, 29, 84n, 108, mentioned, 171n 148n, 159n, 251, 261n Jaspers, Karl mentioned, xi, xv, xxi, xxii, 21, 22, identified, 24n 54, 80n, 174, 256, 392 and La filosofia dell’esistenza e Carlo Santayana on, 260, 376 Jaspers, 31 surrenders, xv and Les Temps modernes, 382 the Vatican, 64n, 78n, 80n, 85, 88 Santayana on, 23, 31, 41, 382 Venice, 5, 71, 72, 72n, 376 mentioned, 47 and World War II, xi, xii, xv, liii, 9n, 22, Jefferson, Thomas 28, 35, 39, 42, 50, 53, 71–72, 72n, 76, identified, 124n 90, 96, 100, 260, 261n and liberty, 123 mentioned, xii, xiv, xviii, 21, 24, 32, 45, mentioned, 359 52, 53, 62, 67, 80n, 164, 166, 172, 188, Jepson, Edgar Alfred 210, 290, 347, 354, 394 identified, 368n and The Middle Span, 365, 366, 372 Jerome, Saint J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. (publisher) identified, 281n and Egotism in German Philosophy, 24, mentioned, 280 25n, 216 Jesus, 121, 220, 221, 282, 297–98, 324, 327 Santayana’s royalties, 24, 244, 347 Jésus, le Dieu fait homme (Couchoud), 298n and Santayana’s works, 381 Jesus: Myth or History? (Robertson), 287, and Winds of Doctrine, 25n 287n, 293, 297 mentioned, 90, 244, 272 Jew(s), 9, 18, 104, 106, 129 Jacovleff, Alexandre Jewish Encyclopedia, 335n Birnbaum on, 317 John Day Co., 233 identified, 318n John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856–April mentioned, 317 15, 1925: A Conversation Piece Jacovleff and Other Artists (Birnbaum), (Birnbaum), 218, 219n 317–18, 318n, 319 Johnson, Isabella, 294, 295n James, Henry Johnson, Lionel Pigot and Santayana, xlix identified, 117n his sexual orientation, lii Santayana on, 117n mentioned, xlvii, lxiv his sister, 294, 295n James, Henry Jr. “To A Spanish Friend,” 117, 117n identified, 219n John the Baptist, Saint, 280, 324 Picture and Text, 218 Jonah (Bible), 136, 137n James, William Journal of Philosophy, 285, 286n, 329n identified, 217n Judaism, 17–18, 289 Santayana on, 329n Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian mentioned, 215, 328 Era, the Age of the Tannaim (Moore), Jansen, Cornelis 327, 328n, 338, 343 identified, 374n Jungle in the Clouds: A Naturalist’s and Jansenism, 374n Explorations in the Republic of Honduras Jansenism, 373, 374n (von Hagen), 73, 73n Janus, Christopher George Juvenalis, Decimus Junius identified, 307n identified, 107n letter(s) to, 307 Index 541

Santayana quotes, 106–7, 108n and Santayana’s works, 177, 384, 391 Santayana reads, 106 mentioned, xix, xlvii

Kallen, Horace Meyer La Crise du monde moderne (Guénon), 312, “The Arts and Thomas Jefferson,” 123, 326 124, 124n La donna è mobile (Rigoletto), 344, 344n Harvard University, student at, lviii La filosofia dell’esistenza e Carlo Jaspers and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 (Pareyson), 31, 31n identified, 93n La Fontaine, Jean de letter(s) to, 92, 123, 202 “Discours à Madame de la Sablière,” and The Middle Span, 210 145n and the Sacco and Vanzetti case, lvi identified, 145n Santayana, sends gift to, 202–3 “Papillon de Parnasse,” 263 Santayana on, lviii mentioned, 144 his wife, 164, 164n La Grande épreuve des démocraties (Benda), his writing, Santayana on, 124 273, 273n, 288–89, 291 mentioned, 7, 25 La idea de Cristo en los Evangelios (trans. Kallen, Rachel Oatman Van Arsdale (Mrs. Náñez), 384, 384n, 385, 389–90, 391 ), 164, 164n Lama, Mrs. C. F. (unidentified) Kant, Immanuel letter(s) to, 94 identified, 243n Lane, Philip, 203, 206, 209, 210, 226, 333, and noumenon, 242 357–58, 371, 386 his philosophy, xliii “La Philosophie de Heidegger et le Kazin, Alfred nazisme” (Waehlens), 382, 383n identified, 282n La Quatrième République, 192, 193n “Shortest Way to Nirvana,” 282, 282n The Last Puritan (Santayana) Kevin, Robert O., 247, 248n and American culture, xli Kierkegaard, Søren and Beal, 48 and “Choose, Leap and Be Free,” 229 Book-of-the-Month selection, 146n identified, 42n and Kyllman, 157 his philosophy, xlii Oliver Alden, 172n Santayana on, 41 and Phelps, 180 mentioned, 357 and the public, 56, 159n, 224, 264 King James Bible, 136 royalties from, 127 The King’s Arms (Sanford, England), 157 Santayana on, 172 King’s Chapel (Boston), 373 Santayana’s work on, xli King’s College (Cambridge University), and Tindall, 12n, 194 129, 277–78, 278n translation(s) of, 82n, 252–53, 254n, Knox, John, xlix 349n, 374, 374n Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott mentioned, xiii, xix, l, lxiv, 87n, 290, identified, 335n 364, 371 The New Testament, translated, 335, 335n “The Last Puritan” (Hazen), 364, 365n Kristus I Evangelierna (trans. Hylander), 337, La struttura dell’esistenza (Abbagnano), 41, 337n 42n Kyllmann, Otto The Lateran (Rome), 84n, 85n, 132 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 130, The Latin American Front (Privitera), 223, 209–10 223n, 228 identified, 130n La Troisième République, 192, 193n, 198 letter(s) to, 156, 365, 377, 378, 389 Le Balze (Strong’s villa), liv, lxiii, 148n, and The Middle Span, 339, 372, 377–78 149n 542 The Letters of George Santayana

“Le cas Heidegger” (Weil), 382, 383n 69, 71, 75n, 78n, 96, 105, 109, 211, L’École des cadavres (Céline), 32, 32n 331, 353 Le Dernier puritain (trans. Sémeziès), 252, new Mother General, 353, 362 254n, 374, 374n and presents, 100, 102, 140, 211, 299, Left Hand, Right Hand: An Autobiography 335 (Sitwell), 289, 290, 290n, 291, 293, Santayana on, 64, 66, 68–69, 108, 323 115–16, 121, 161, 174, 265 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm and Santayana’s living arrangments, 60, identified, 329n 61–62, 61n, 63, 72–73, 75n, 82n, 84n, mentioned, 328 87, 102, 111, 112, 195, 224 Le Mythe de Sisyphe: essay sur l’absurde and Santayana’s payment, 67, 71, 78n, (Camus), 226, 226n, 341, 341n, 357 80n, 96, 105, 109–10, 115, 119, 125, Le Neveu de Rameau (Diderot), 325, 326n 135, 162, 204, 208, 219–20, 249–50, L’Enfernat, Marquise de, 365, 367, 368n 254, 260, 268, 310, 347 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 25 sisters of, 76n, 80n, 81n, 88, 112, 192, Les Beaux draps (Céline), 32, 32n 203, 237, 257, 265, 302 Les Temps modernes, 381–82, 382n and tea, 132 The Letters of George Santayana (MIT), 399, mentioned, xi, xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, xxi, 401, 403, 404 xxii, xxiv, xlix, lix, 92, 127, 128, 145, The Letters of George Santayana (ed. Cory), 148n, 150, 186, 202, 230–31, 238, 278, 401, 402, 403, 404, 408 296, 336, 389, 394 Lewis, C[live] S[taples] A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry, English & identified, 327n American (ed. Williams), 272, 273n The Screwtape Letters, 326, 327n “Locke and the Frontiers of Common Liberty, Santayana on, 123, 124, 150 Sense” (Santayana), 274, 275n The Library of Living Philosophers, 6, 7n, 12, Loeser, Charles, lix 13, 16, 20, 315n Logic, Santayana on, 4 L’Idea di Cristo nei Vangeli o Dio nell’uomo Lord Weary’s Castle (Lowell), xxiv, (Guzzo), 196, 196n 350–51, 351n, 353, 354, 356–57, 359, Life (magazine), 94, 94n, 376 360, 362, 363, 372, 373, 375, 385, The Life of Reason (Santayana), lxi, 27, 390–91 28n, 314, 364 Losacco, Michele Lincoln, Abraham, 38 identified, 21n Lind, Bruno, 408 and The Philosophy of George Santayana, Lippmann, Walter 20 identified, 213n Los reinos de ser (trans. González Aramburo), Santayana’s pupil, 213, 276 390n his writing, Santayana on, 213 L’Osservatore Romano (Vatican newspaper), mentioned, 17 276, 277n The Literary Education of Franklin Delano “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Roosevelt (C. Clemens), 339, 339n (Eliot), 360, 361n The Little Company of Mary (Chicago), 66, Lowell, Abbott Lawrence 66n, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72–73, 75n, 82n, and Harvard, 179, 350 89, 96, 101, 105, 109–10, 125, 128, Harvard University, president, lx 135, 219–20, 246, 249–50, 254, 260, identified, 179n 310 Lowell, Charlotte Wilson (Mrs. Robert The Little Company of Mary (Rome) Lowell), 385 and Cory, 331, 353–54, 362 Lowell, Guy description of, 65n, 70 identified, 351n library at, 93, 102, 106 mentioned, 350 and the Mother General (Ambrose), 66, Index 543

Lowell, James Russell Lyon, Richard C., xliii identified, 351n mentioned, 350 Lowell, Robert Traill Spence Jr. The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom his age, 360, 361n (Burnham), 217, 217n and Catholicism, 373, 375, 385, 393 Maclean, Wallace J. (unidentified) his education, xxv letter(s) to, 282 his family, 384–85 Magdalen College (Oxford University), identified, 351n 369, 371 letter(s) to, 350, 390 The Man from Limehouse: Clement Richard Lord Weary’s Castle, xxiv, 350–51, 351n, Attlee (Clemens), 291, 292n, 300 353, 354, 356–57, 359, 360, 362, 363, The Man from Missouri: A Biography of Harry 372, 373, 375, 385, 390–91 S. Truman (Clemens), 228, 228n, 300 his marriage, xxv “Many Nations in One Empire” his poetry, Santayana on, 351, 353, 354, (Santayana), 162–63, 172–73, 193, 210, 360, 362, 363, 390–91, 392 210n, 248, 394, 395n and prison, xxv Marconi, Maria Cristina and religion, xxv identified, 200n Santayana, friendship with, xxv visits Santayana, 199 Santayana on, xxiv, 359, 360, 362, 372, Mardrus, J[oseph] C[harles], his The Arabian 373, 385, 393 Nights, 318 Santayana, relationship with, xlvii Maria (housemaid), 161, 174, 190, 355 Santayana’s correspondence, lxiv Maritain, Jacques his son, 350 ambassador, xxi his wife, 385, 393 his books, Santayana on, 196 and World War II, xxv and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 mentioned, 352n, 385 identified, 197n Lowell family, 354 Santayana on, 197–98, 202 Lucifer, or the Heavenly Truce: A Theological visits Santayana, xxi, 196, 197–98, 199, (Santayana), 180, 181n 202 (Titus Lucretius Carus) Maritain, Mrs. Jacques, 196, 197–98, 199 identified, 222n Mark Twain Quarterly, 35n, 49, 50n, 263, mentioned, 221 263n L’ultimo puritano (trans. Pellizi), 252, 254n Mark Twain’s Letters (ed. Branch, Frank, and Luther, Martin Sanderson), 405, 411 identified, 164n The Marriage of Venus: A Comedy (Santayana), mentioned, 164 xxiv, 165, 165n, 175–76, 176n, 180–81, Lybyer, Albert Howe 194, 200, 229, 231 The Government of the Ottoman Empire in Marx, Karl the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent, identified, 370n 299, 326, 327 Santayana on, lxvi identified, 300n mentioned, 370 Lycurgus, lxiv , Santayana on, 4 Lyman, Herbert Mathematics, Santayana on, 4 death of, xi, 44 Matter, Santayana on, 2 identified, 46n Matthews, Herbert Lionel, 93, 94n, 170, Santayana, friends with, 373 171 n Santayana on, 48 “Maurice Baring [a recollection]” (Storrs), and Thoron, 48 394 visits Santayana, 48 Maxwell, William, The Folded Leaf, 289–90, mentioned, li, 69 290n, 291, 323 544 The Letters of George Santayana

McCormick, Anne Elizabeth O’Hare 95, 98, 110, 146n, 245, 294, 295n, 339 identified, 96n Miller, Lee mentioned, 95, 276 identified, 110n McCormick, John, George Santayana: A and Santayana manuscript, xvii Biography, xlv, lxiv Miller, Mary Britton Melville, Herman Do I Wake or Sleep?, 325, 326n, 326–27 identified, 361n identified, 326n Moby Dick, or The White Whale, 360, her writing, Santayana on, 325 361n, 362 Mind ( journal), 328, 329n Memoirs of A Superfluous Man (Nock), 264, “ Letter” (Whiteside), 111n 265n, 266 MIT Press (publisher) Menander and Persons and Places: Fragments of identified, 233n Autobiography (Santayana), xiii mentioned, 231 Moby Dick, or The White Whale (Melville), Menshevism, 249n 360, 361n, 362, 373 Mercurio (Italian review), 144 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de Merleau-Ponty, Maurice identified, 7n identified, 382n his Pyrrhonian method, 380n and Les Temps modernes, 382, 382n and Santayana, 380 Merriam, John McKinstry Santayana quotes, 27, 28n identified, 196n mentioned, 6, 209 letter(s) to, 195 Moody, William Vaughn mentioned, xxi identified, 393n Merrill, Moses, xlvi his poetry, 392 “Michael” (Cory, unpublished), lv, 38, 38n Moore, George Edward Michelangelo (Buonarroti), xli identified, 278n The Middle Span (Santayana) Santayana on, 19 and Andersen’s drawing, 94, 94n and Strong’s International Philosophical and the Book-of-the-Month Club, 145 Fellowship Fund, 34n and British spelling, 146 mentioned, 277, 285 and content, 157 Moore, George Foot copies of, 162, 243 identified, 328n copies of, Santayana has sent, 139, 196, Judaism in the First Centuries of the 253 Christian Era, the Age of the Tannaim, and Cory, 123, 137n, 188 327, 328n, 338, 343 and Freidenberg, 121 Moral relativism, xlv, lxiv and King’s College (England), 129 Morgan, J. Pierpont Jr. and Kyllmann, 210 identified, 49n and legal issues, 365–67, 372, 377–78 mentioned, 48, 51, 55 name of, 128, 129 Morley, Christopher Darlington publication of, 139 identified, 153n review(s) of, 152, 153, 153n, 155, 156n, The Middle Span, review of, 152, 153n, 235 155, 235 revisions in, 378, 379n The Powder of Sympathy, 152, 153n royalties from, 141, 191 on Santayana, 152, 155 Santayana on, 87, 103, 127, 129, 291 Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne and Tindall, 88 identified, 320n translation of, 385–86, 386, 389 mentioned, 320 and Walker, 111 Mr. Skeffington (“Elizabeth”), 26, 27n and Wheelock, 137n Mumford, Lewis, The Golden Day, lxi, lxv mentioned, xiii, xvi, xvii, xix, 85, 85n, Index 545

Munitz, Milton Karl The New Leviathan (Collingwood), 239n, identified, 315n 240, 242, 244, 285 Santayana, article on, 314 Newman, John Henry Santayana’s disagreement with, 314 identified, 93n Munro, Thomas mentioned, 93 and the American Society for The New Poetry: An Anthology (ed. Monroe), Aesthetics, 113, 113n 267 identified, 113n The New Republic, 282n letter(s) to, 113 The New Testament (trans. Knox), 335, 335n mentioned, xvii The New York Review of Books, 403 Munson, Thomas Nolan New York Times (newspaper), 170, 247, 276, identified, 345n 301, 301n, 307, 308n letter(s) to, 345 The New York Times Book Review, 415 and Santayana’s philosophy, 345 Nicholas Murray Butler Gold Medal, 143n, Musset, Alfred de 145, 146n identified, 166n Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm mentioned, 165 Beyond Good and Evil, 155, 156n Mussolini, Benito identified, 7n fall of, xv Perry on, 215 and government, xii and women, 10 identified, 166n mentioned, 6, 311 mentioned, lxiii, 166 Nock, Albert Jay My Host the World (Santayana) identified, 265n and Cory, 331, 335, 369–70 Memoirs of A Superfluous Man, 264, 265n, King’s College (England), 129 266 name of, 129 Santayana on, 266 Santayana’s work on, 354 Nolan, J. T. Jr. and Tindall, 358, 361, 362, 369–70, 373 letter(s) to, 374 mentioned, xiii, xvii, xix, 98, 99n, 146n, Northwestern University, 25 155, 157, 169, 359n, 360, 361n “The Notion of a Physical Object” (Cory, My Life & Adventures ( J. Russell), 378, 378n lecture), 41, 42n , 295 The Nuremberg Trial (Cooper), 341, 342n The Mystic of Spain (Rubio), 295, 295n

Obiter Scripta (ed. Buchler and Schwartz), Napoleonic Code, 185, 186n 259, 260n Nash, Frederick H. Observer (newspaper), 319 identified, 136n “Ode V” (Santayana), 144n Santayana on, 176 O’Donnell, Mary Ambrose (Mother and Santayana’s finances, 176, 181–83, Superior) 185, 186, 188–89, 201, 204, 207, identified, 61n, 66n 212–13, 388 and Santayana, 60, 61, 66, 69, 146, 353 and Washburn, 207 and Santayana’s payment, 67, 71, 72, mentioned, 135, 167, 191, 198, 201, 208, 75n, 78n, 101, 105, 109, 115, 125, 219, 229 260 , Santayana on, 97, 234–35 O’Donnell, Mary Ambrose (continued ) Nature, Santayana on, 234–35, 349 mentioned, 131, 148n, 161, 170, 209, Neo-Platonists, 348n 211, 222, 237, 331, 334, 355, 376 New Adelphi, 242, 243n Old Colony Trust Co., 135, 150, 155, 162, New Deal, 321, 322, 322n 167, 249, 305, 310, 312, 333–34, 335, New Frontier ( journal), 162, 163n, 193 387 546 The Letters of George Santayana

Olympians (Greek mythology), 180–81, 231 Palinurus. See Connolly, Cyril Vernon Onderdonk, Andrew Joseph Palmer, George Herbert, lix his family, 19, 20n, 102 “Papillon de Parnasse” (La Fontaine), 263 gifts, sends Santayana, 131, 132, 140, Pareyson, Luigi 155, 220, 250, 254–55 identified, 24n identified, 19n La filosofia dell’esistenza e Carlo Jaspers, 31, letter(s) to, 19, 102, 119, 131, 155, 220, 31n 250, 254 mentioned, 23 his mother, 18 Parker, Dorothy Rothschild and his place of residence, 220, 221n identified, 217n Santayana, friendship with, 18, 250 mentioned, 216 Santayana on, 18 Parkman family, xiii, 55 mentioned, 16 Parmenides (Plato), 347–48, 348n O’Neill, Thomas L. Pater, Walter Horatio identified, 80n identified, 370n mentioned, 80n mentioned, 370 “On the Three Philosophical Poets” Paul, Saint (Santayana), 250, 251n identified, 280n The Open Society and Its Enemies (Popper), mentioned, xxiii, 280, 324 284, 284n, 285, 287 Peirce, Charles Sanders, 248n Ophelia (Hamlet), 318 Penguin Publishing Co., 340, 341, 348 Origo, Antonio “Perception and Knowledge” (Cory, identified, 149n unpublished), 38, 38n and World War II, 192 Perry, Ralph Barton mentioned, xxi Harvard professor, 215 Origo, Iris Margaret Cutting identified, 217n her children, 192, 193n on Nietzsche, 215 identified, 149n and Princeton University, 289 and Persons and Places, 192, 193n The Thought and Character of William Santayana on, xx James, 215, 217n visits Santayana, xx, 148n, 192 mentioned, 288 and World War II, 192 Personæ: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound Otis, Brooks (Pound), 315, 316n identified, 163n Personas y lugares: primeros recuerdos de mi vida New Frontier, 162, 163n (trans. Lecuona), 384, 384n The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography 410 (Santayana) The Oxford Companion to English Literature, accuracy in, 138 410 and American spelling, 146, 157 Oxford University, 277, 285 and Avila, 5, 36, 376 Book-of-the-Month Club, 146n, 182 and British spelling, 146, 146n Page, David and Cory, 37, 56n, 60–61, 66, 188, 190, and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 247 201, 205, 207–8, 209n, 212–13, identified, 97n 229–30, 287 letter(s) to, 97, 162, 172, 193, 210, 234, English names, 157 247, 264 errata, 86, 106–7, 108n, 156–57, 177, “The New Satyricon” (unpublished), 97, 177 n 98n, 173, 193, 210, 234, 248, 394 images for, 136 Santayana on, lxv one volume of, 156–57 mentioned, xix people in, 192, 193 Index 547

publication of, 85, 88, 156–57 “Philosophers at Court” (Santayana), xxiv, published serially, 60–61, 61n, 62 165, 165n, 175, 180, 181, 200, 231 reader response to, 180 Philosophical Congress (Rome), 306, 315, review(s) of, 235, 235n 319 royalties from, 56n, 86–87, 89, 91, 92, The Philosophic Way of Life in America 126, 127, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 205, (Smith), 99, 100n 207–8, 209n, 212–13, 229–30, 305–6 Philosophy and Politics (B. Russell), 360, 361n Santayana on, 8, 35, 37, 46, 47, 86, The Philosophy of (ed. 92–93, 136–37, 278, 294 Schlipp), 17, 18n Santayana works on, 8, 11, 16, 20, 23, The Philosophy of George Santayana (ed. 33, 35, 36, 40, 46, 47, 48, 55, 56, 58, Schilpp) 63, 81n “Apologia Pro Mente Sua,” 6, 7n, 14, 16, and Spanish names, 106, 157 315n and Tindall, 29, 30, 39, 56–57 copies of, 20 translation(s) of, 82n, 177n, 384 critics of, 27 wording in, 104, 104n, 129 errata, 12, 13, 13n, 14, 20, 21n and World War II, 63, 63–64n, 66–67, “A General Confession,” 314, 315n 68, 89n, 136–37, 156–57 Santayana on, 12, 14, 26, 93 mentioned, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, and Santayana’s photograph, 13 xix, xx, xlv, 6n, 8n, 12, 17, 25, 40n, mentioned, 7n, 12n, 13, 17, 18, 31, 31n, 48n, 53, 56, 56n, 58n, 62, 63, 82n, 124, 315n 87n, 92, 102, 102–3n, 108–9, 109n, The Philosophy of John Dewey (ed. Schilpp), 111, 113, 128, 130n, 165, 189, 195, 13, 13n 224, 252n, 264, 278n, 279n The Philosophy of Santayana (ed. Edman), Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography 140n, 273 (ed. Holzberger and Saatkamp Jr.), Picture and Text ( James), 218 lxiv, 24, 58n, 108n, 110n, 153 Pierce, Samuel Stillman, 200n Petrone, Michele Pinchetti, Cesare and books, 273, 276, 304 identified, 39n identified, 21n rebuilds hotel, xii and The Philosophy of George Santayana, mentioned, 39, 72 20 Pinturicchio Santayana on, 166, 276 his art, 342–43 and World War II, 166 identified, 343n mentioned, 196, 196n, 276n, 328 Pius XII Petronius identified, 134n identified, 235n mentioned, 133 Satyricon, 234–35, 235n Plain-text edition, 405 his writing, Santayana on, 234–35 Plank (Santayana’s tailor), 275–76, 310 mentioned, 317 Plato Phelps, Mrs. William Lyon, 8 Crito, lix Phelps, William Lyon identified, 111n identified, 181n Parmenides, 347–48, 348n and The Last Puritan, 180 his philosophy, xlii travel plans, xlviii Popper on, 285 mentioned, lxii and Santayana, xxiii Phillips, William Santayana influenced by, 5n identified, 46n Santayana on, 221, 347 mentioned, 45 and Santayana’s essences, xlii “A Philosopher and the Four Gospels” and spirit, xlii (Edman and Romano), 247, 248n mentioned, 110, 180, 181n, 327, 328 548 The Letters of George Santayana

Platonic Ideas, 244, 348 Pound, Ezra Loomis Platonism, 337 arrested, xii “Plato’s Problem in the Parmenides: Ideas “Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” 267, 267n, are Beyond Any Quantitative 283 Category” (Beck), 347–48, 348n Cantos LII-LXXI, 294 Plato’s Theory of Man (Wild), 298, 298n, 299, committed, xii 300, 303, 326, 327 and “Ezra Pound,” 315, 319 Poddereguine (unidentified), 338 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 284 Poems: Selected by the Author and Revised identified, 4n (Santayana), xlviii letter(s) to, 4, 78, 266 Poetry, Santayana on, 138, 189, 272, 315, and The Middle Span, 294 392 Personæ: The Collected Poems of Ezra The Poet’s Testament (Santayana), xix, xxiv, Pound, 315, 316n 98, 99n, 165n, 175, 232, 234, 335, and The Realm of Spirit, 78, 320–21 335n at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, 315, 316n “The Poet’s Testament” (Santayana), 165, Santayana on, 36–37, 316 165n tried for treason, xii “Poets versus readers” (Viereck), 375n visits Santayana, xii, 23, 36-37 Poletti, Charles his works, 295n, 315, 316 identified, 96n and World War II, xii, 23, 24n, 36–37, visits Santayana, 95, 113, 276 266, 267n Pollock, Frederick mentioned, 38 identified, 28n The Powder of Sympathy (Morley), 152, 153n and The Life of Reason, 27 , 247, 248n Popper, Karl Raimund Price, Henry Habberly identified, 284n identified, 286n The Open Society and Its Enemies, 284, mentioned, 285 284n, 285, 287 Princeton University, 289 his philosophy, 285 Princeton University Library, 411 his writing, Santayana on, 284 Privitera, Joseph Frederic Porta Metronia (Rome), 311, 312n identified, 223n Posthumous Poems. See The Poet’s Testament The Latin American Front, 223, 223n, 228 Potter, Elizabeth “Lily” Stephens Fish (Mrs. his writing, Santayana on, 228 Robert Potter) Proust, Marcel and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 232 identified, 326n identified, 109n mentioned, 325 and The Middle Span, 139 Puritanism, 289 Santayana, friend of, 10 Pyramus and Thisbe, 339, 340n mentioned, 7, 130, 388–89 Pythagoras, lxv Potter, Mary identified, 65n mentioned, 108 Quakers, 248, 249n Potter, Robert Burnside “Qu’est-ce que la litterature?” (Sartre), 382, identified, 137n 383n and The Middle Span, 139 Questioni del Leninismo (Stalin, trans. photograph(s) of, 137 Togliatti), 235, 235n, 236, 237, 239, mentioned, xlvii, 109n 241, 244, 246, 248, 255, 370 Pound, Dorothy Shakespear (Mrs. Ezra Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Pound) Graduates of Harvard University, identified, 295n 1636–1925, 410 letter(s) to, 294 Index 549

Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius Spirit” (Rosenthal and Friess), 31n identified, 107n Reeves, Harrison Sprague mentioned, 106 identified, 25n mentioned, 24 Reichhardt, Hans, 332n Rayner, John, and A Selection of Engravings Reinhardt, Max, 111n on Wood, 340, 340n, 341 Religion Reading I’ve Liked (Fadiman), 4 religious tradition, Santayana on, 4 The Realm of Essence (Santayana) Santayana on, xliv, 26, 97, 121 preface for, 16 mentioned, 26 and the Realms of being, xlii “Renaissance Man” (Life magazine), 342, review(s) of, 242 343n Santayana’s introduction, 13 Reves, Emery and The Works of George Santayana, 321 The Anatomy of Peace, 222–23, 228 The Realm of Matter (Santayana) identified, 223n and the Realms of being, xlii his writing, Santayana on, 222–23, 228 mentioned, liv, 187, 321 of 1848 (Europe), 394, 395n Realm of spirit (Santayana’s philosophy), Richardson, Sarah 221, 267 identified, 368n The Realm of Spirit (Santayana) mentioned, 367 errata, 25, 25n Rigacci, Dino (Strong’s chauffeur) and the Realms of being, xlii identified, 149n royalties from, 34 letter(s) to, 148 sale of, 30 mentioned, 408 Santayana on, 78, 97 Rigoletto (Verdi), 344, 344n Santayana works on, 4 Robbins, J. Albert, 411 Schilpp’s review, 26 Robertson, Archibald and The Works of George Santayana, 5, 6n, Jesus: Myth or History?, 287, 287n, 293, 386, 387n 297 mentioned, 161, 248, 267, 320–21, 358 Santayana on, 297–98 The Realm of Truth (Santayana) Robinson, Moncure and the Realms of being, xlii identified, 279n and The Works of George Santayana, 5, 6n, mentioned, 278 321, 371, 386, 387n Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 344 mentioned, 213–14 Rockefeller, John D., xliv Realms of Being (Santayana) Rockefeller, John Davison Jr. and Cory, 325n identified, 52n error(s) in, 177, 177n mentioned, 51 Nicholas Murray Butler Gold Medal, Rockefeller Archive Center, lxiii Santayana receives award for, 145 Roddman, Philip publication of, 13, 16, 17, 161 identified, 382n Santayana on, 267 Le Monde Moderne, his political party, Santayana’s introduction, 13n, 14, 16, 17, 383 23, 25, 29, 32 and Les Temps modernes, 382, 383 translation(s) of, 389, 390, 390n, 391–92 letter(s) to, 381 and Wheelock, 7, 16, 139 visits Santayana, 382 mentioned, xlii–xliii, 7n, 259, 267, 320, Roman Empire, 175, 175n, 220 322, 358, 371 Romano, Umberto, 248n Reason in Religion (Santayana), 372n Romans, Santayana on, 194 “Reason in Religion and the Emancipated Roma Termini (train station), 22, 22n 550 The Letters of George Santayana

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 292–93, 328–29 identified, 25n mentioned, xxiii, xlii, xlvii, 15, 22, 38, and the New Deal, 321, 322n 146, 146n, 226, 230, 244, 277, 285, and Santayana, 24, 45, 51 293n, 329n Santayana on, 339 Russell, John Francis Stanley mentioned, 353 Broom Hall (mansion), 157n, 377, 378n, Rosenthal, Henry M. 378 identified, 31n identified, 99n “Reason in Religion and the Mabel Edith, marriage to, 157, 157n, Emancipated Spirit,” 31n 183n mentioned, 31 Mary Annette, marriage to, lxv, 27n, Rousseau, Jean Jacques 366 identified, 380n My Life & Adventures, 378, 378n mentioned, 380 his name, 107, 145–46 Royal Society of Literature, 274, 275n, his parents, 107, 108n, 319–20 379, 379n photograph of, 137, 137n Rubio, David Santayana, relationship with, 11, 12, 13 identified, 295n Santayana on, xlix, li, lii, 379 letter(s) to, 295, 295n and Santayana’s autobiography, 98–99, The Mystic Soul of Spain, 295 339, 378, 379 his writing, Santayana on, 295 and scandal, 98–99, 103, 157, 183n, 210, Rules for Compositors and Readers at the 365, 377, 379 University Press, Oxford (Hart), 407 and the Williams sisters, 157, 377 Russell, Bertrand Arthur William mentioned, xlvii, lxii, 138, 146n, 328, The Amberley Papers, xxii, 292, 319–20, 368n 328 Russell, John Amberley ( John and and “Are Sense-Data in the Brain?” Bertrand’s father) (Cory), 329n, 343, 347, 348n and The Amberley Papers, xxiii and his brother, 98, 103, 328 identified, 108n Cory, interviewed by, 328, 334 mentioned, 292, 328, 379 A History of Western Philosophy, xxiii, 224, Russell, Katharine Stanley ( John and 225n, 226, 232, 259, 328–29 Bertrand’s mother), 108n, 292–93 identified, 99n Russell, Mabel Edith Scott (Mrs. John Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, 14, 15n, Russell) 31, 33, 34 identified, 157n Nicholas Murray Butler Gold Medal, John Russell, marriage to, 157, 157n, receives, 145, 146n 183n, 367 his parents, 319–20 mentioned, 183, 368n, 377, 379 his philosophy, xlii, xlix, 41 Russell, Mary Annette Beauchamp (Mrs. Philosophy and Politics, 360, 361n John Russell) [pseud. “Elizabeth”] Santayana, friendship with, xxiii death of, xi, 26 Santayana on, 9, 19 identified, 27n and Santayana’s autobiography, 98, 331, John Russell, marriage to, lxv, 27n, 366 377 and The Middle Span, 366 and Santayana’s philosophy, 328–29 Mr. Skeffington, 26, 27n and sense-data, 329 her writing, Santayana on, 26 and social activism, lvi mentioned, lii, 368n and Strong’s International Philosophical Russell, Patricia “Peter” Helen Spence (Mrs. Fellowship Fund, 34n, 44 ) his title, 378n and The Amberley Papers, xxii–xxiii, his writing, Santayana on, 31, 34, 319–20 Index 551

mentioned, 293n 112, 121, 130, 131, 132, 140–41, 144, Russia 150–51, 153, 154, 155, 159–60, and communism, lxv 161–62, 169, 186, 197, 198, 201, and Japan, 46n 211–12, 217, 223–24, 226, 229, 261, and Russians, 289 302–3, 336 Santayana on, 163, 173 and America, xli, 7, 17, 153 and World War II, 45, 46n, 163, 175n America, does not return to, xli, 21n, mentioned, xii, 175, 354 313, 343, 351, 392 America, idealization of, xxii on American academics, xxi, 6 Sabbatucci, Luigi on American newspapers, 154 advises Santayana, xiv on anger, 156 his bill, 40 and anti-semitism, lvii–lviii identified, 10n his appearance, 85, 87, 89, 92, 94, 97, Santayana’s doctor, lviii 112, 113, 121, 132, 154 mentioned, 9, 10, 14, 19, 38, 58, 59, 60, and architecture, liii, 119, 119n, 124, 61, 62, 64, 68–69, 214, 225, 353, 395 206, 216, 342, 356 Saint Thomas Aquinas (Chesterton), 168–69, on art, 179, 218, 220, 317–18, 342 169n on artists, 94, 124 Salerno, George, 319, 320n Aryan Society, turns down Salmon, T. P., 150, 150n, 167, 204, 205, presidency of, lviii 220, 230, 247, 249, 283, 305, 310, 312, on authors, 123–24, 200 330, 339 his autograph, 271 Saltonstall, Leverett Ávila, 5, 8, 36, 75n, 78n, 127–28 identified, 247n on being American, 12, 31 Santayana, helps, xxi on being looked after, 102 mentioned, 246, 249, 254, 260 Bible, references, 120, 120n Sanborn, Thomas Parker his birth, 95 identified, 87n his birthday, 49, 202, 294, 306, 393 Santayana, college friend of, 86 and Bolshevism, lxiii Santayana, Agustín Ruiz de (Santayana’s and books, xxi, xxii, 85, 144, 200, father) 216–17, 223, 224, 226, 229, 239, 241, identified, 107n 244, 272–73, 275, 278, 283, 285, his letters, 138 286–87, 290, 304, 305, 309, 364, 371, and Persons and Places, 40, 46 373–74, 386 portrait of, 137 his books, 82n, 93, 148–49n, 170, 174, mentioned, 85n, 106 175 Santayana, Elvira (Santayana’s cousin), 40, on Bolsheviks, lvi, lxv, lxvi 40n Boston Public Latin School, graduate of, Santayana, George ( Jorge Agustín Nicolás) xlvi, 56, 69 advice, gives, 240–41 and capitalism, lxvi, 201, 249 and afternoon tea, 140, 150, 161, 224, and charity, lvii 311, 324 and Christ Church College (Oxford), his age, xi, 21, 21n, 43, 45, 46, 50n, 64, 277 70, 71, 76n, 82n, 84n, 102, 112, 113, his citizenship, xli, xliii 114, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 131, 135, and clothing, 167–68, 190, 208–9, 145, 148n, 149, 150, 156, 159n, 160, 211–12, 224–25, 229, 244, 261, 170, 175, 176n, 180, 189, 192, 195, 199, 267–68, 269, 271, 275–76, 280, 310, 208, 213, 214–15, 222, 232, 238, 251, 342, 355 278, 281, 330, 343, 352 and coffee, 227 and amenities, 100–101, 102, 108, 110, and communism, xix, lxv, 203, 235, 552 The Letters of George Santayana

Santayana, George (continued ) 72–73, 75n, 78n, 80n, 89, 101, 256, 389 105, 109–10, 115, 119, 122, 125, and correspondence, xli, xli–xliii, 128, 135, 162, 204, 208, 219–20, xliv–xlv, lxii, lxii–lxiii, lxiii, lxiv, 230–31, 232, 238, 246, 247, 402–3, 35, 64, 159n 249–50, 254, 259, 260, 268, 283, Cortina d’Ampezzo, xxiv 287, 297, 310, 347 on Cory, xxiv Brown Shipley and Company, xiii, Cory, friendship with, xx, xlvii, liii–lv xxii, 15, 15n, 34, 51, 76, 85, Cory, gives manuscripts to, xxiv 86–87, 89–90, 101, 114, 115, 125, Cory, his literary executor, 66, 402 127, 143, 147, 176, 229, 232, 238, Cory, his secretary, liv, lxv, 8n, 44, 89, 268, 271, 274, 275, 283, 286, 187–88, 230, 401–2 287, 287n, 290, 293, 304, 309, on Cory’s life, xx 330, 347, 366 Cory visits, xxiv, liv his budget, xii, xiv, xv, 23 and criticism, xliv and Cory, xiii, xiv, xvi, xx, xxii, and critics, xlii, 27, 30, 165, 264 xxiv, 14, 15, 23, 35, 36, 63, his daily routine, 14, 15, 29, 32, 46–47, 86–87, 87n, 88, 89, 90–91, 91–92, 64, 70, 71–72, 78n, 81n, 82n, 84n, 127, 103, 105, 106, 120, 126, 127, 130, 162, 175, 211, 265 137, 147, 181–83, 186, 188–89, on death and dying, 11 190, 191, 205, 212–13, 229–30, death of, xlvii, liv, 402 238, 249, 271, 275, 290, 291, 297, his Deed of Trust, 101, 118, 120, 126, 303, 305, 330–31, 333–34, 335, 135, 155, 162, 176, 184–85, 204, 205 338, 340, 354, 386, 388 and democracy, xix, xxi, lxvi, 173, 227, Cory’s allowance, xiii, xiv, liv, 23, 289 34, 126, 127, 141, 204, 274, 283, his doctor(s), xiv, lviii, 9, 10n, 10, 14, 19, 347 38, 40, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 68–69, Credito Italiano, 5, 9, 10, 22, 33, 214, 225, 353, 395 35–36, 40, 45, 65, 71 on education, xliv, 227–28, 270, 356 debt(s), xviii, xxi endures hardships, xi, xiii, xviii, xxi, difficulties, xx, xxi, xxii xxii, xxiv exchange rate(s), 5, 10, 34, 54, and England, 152, 274, 291, 369, 371 65–66, 232, 238, 257, 283, family potraits, 137, 138n 310–11, 312, 339, 341 on fascism, 389 and his family, 131 on Fascists, lvi his fortune, xxi his father’s letters, 138 heirs, xvi, xx, 23n, 98, 230, 387–88 feminists on, l his income, xii, 15, 45, 50, 61, film of, 87n 89–90, 96, 102, 114–16, 122–23, finances 127, 133, 135, 141, 146, 182, 191, and Appleton, 124, 126, 128, 131, 205, 219–20, 238, 249, 272, 283, 132–33, 134–35, 141, 150, 155, 309, 311, 312, 319, 388 167, 181–83, 185, 186, 189, 198, his inheritance, 45 201, 205, 207, 208, 212–13, Josephine, inheritance from, 149, 230–31, 232, 238, 246, 249, 260, 186 268, 272, 281, 283, 287, 305–6, and Mercedes, 134–35, 149, 205, 330, 347, 388 250 Banco di Napoli, 142, 148, 186, 238, and Nash, 176, 181–83, 185, 186, 331, 335, 339, 340 188–89, 201, 204, 207, 212–13, his bequests, 201 388 and R. Bidwell, 185, 198, 201, 213 and the Old Colony Trust Co., 162, his bills, 40, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 167, 283, 333–34, 335 Index 553 royalties, xiii, xvi, xix, xx, xxii, xxiv, 347 xlviii, liv, 15, 23, 24, 33–34, 35, yearly account, 15, 95, 346–47 36, 37, 56n, 61, 63, 86–87, 87n, mentioned, xviii, xxi, lxiii, 5, 9, 10, 88, 89, 90–91, 91–92, 98, 103, 22, 37, 117, 118, 125, 130, 105, 106, 120, 126, 127, 128, 130, 229–31, 232, 268, 286–87, 137, 141, 147, 148, 167, 182, 185, 303–4, 312 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 205, and food, 159–60, 186, 197, 261, 297, 212–13, 229, 231, 238, 244, 249, 302–3, 310, 346, 355–56, 358 250, 268–69, 272, 283, 286, 287, and forms of address, xlvi–xlvii 291, 297, 303, 305–6, 309, 319, on freedom, 123 320, 347, 363, 381, 384, 388 friends and Salmon, 312, 330, 339 American, lxi and Sastre family, 10, 131 Anderson, 226 and Spain, 76, 283 Barlow, xi and Stark, 338 Bayley, 56, 69 and G. Sturgis, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, Beal, xiii, 51 41, 42–43, 45, 47, 49, 50–51, 52, Bridges, 351 53, 54, 55, 59, 60, 62, 65, 68, 70, Butler, 47 71, 73, 75n, 80n, 82n, 86, 88, Chetwynd, 278 89–90, 95–96, 98, 101, 105, 106, Cory, xlvii, 8n, 383 109–10, 116, 119, 121, 122–23, Cutting, xx 124, 126–27, 128, 133, 142, 155, death of, xi, xvii 181–83, 188, 205, 208, 212, 219, European, lxi 249–50, 310, 387, 388 Freidenberg, xvii and R. Sturgis, xxiv, 116, 176, 205, from Harvard, xli, xlvi, xlvii, 179 387 , lxi and Sturgis family, 23, 23n, 131, G. Lowell, 350 283, 287, 386, 387–88 R. Lowell, xxv, xlvii taxes, xx, 50, 92, 105, 106, 167, 176, Lyman, xi, 373 181–83, 186, 188, 189, 196, 201, Onderdonk, 18, 250 205, 208, 213, 249, 250, 306, 311 Mrs. Potter, l and Taylor, 133–34, 142, 148 Robinson, 278 Thomas Cook & Son, 18, 21, 45, 51, M. Russell, xi 52, 57, 59, 65, 90 Slade, xx and Tindall’s account, 11, 17, 39, 62, Stickney, 351 76, 114, 142–43, 147, 152, 202, Strong, liv, 44, 187 281, 304–5, 332, 334, 335, Toy, xii, l 340–41, 346 Warren, 56, 69 trust account, 247, 249, 305, 363, Westenholz, 386 366, 387 Wheelock, 51 and Wheelock, 128, 133, 142, 153, Mrs. Winslow, l 201, 232, 287, 290, 291, 297, women, xlvii 303–4, 305, 319, 320, 326, 330, mentioned, lxi–xlvi, 92, 113, 198, 333–34, 338, 363, 371, 373–74, 215, 225 386, 392 on friendship, 18 his will, xx Germany, studies in, xiii, xli, xlv, 55, and World War II, xiii, xiv, xv, 21, 56n, 68 28, 32, 33, 35–36, 37, 39, 42–43, gifts, receives, 130, 131, 132, 137, 45, 47, 49, 50–51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 139–40, 144–45, 150, 153, 154, 155, 58, 59, 60, 62, 67, 68, 71, 73, 159–60, 161–62, 167–68, 169, 190, 75n, 76n, 90, 112, 114, 126, 128, 192, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202–3, 554 The Letters of George Santayana

Santayana, George (continued ) lectures 208–9, 211–12, 217, 220, 222, 223–24, audience response to, 3 226–27, 229, 236, 237, 238, 244, 245, “The Unknowable,” lii, 3n 250, 254–55, 257, 259, 260, 261–62, on liberty, 123, 124, 150 265, 267–68, 269, 271, 272, 276, 277, life, view of, lv–lvi 280, 293–94, 296–97, 299, 302–3, on his life, 20, 43, 113, 127–28, 139 304, 306–7, 308, 310, 311, 312, 316, and The Little Company of Mary, xlix, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 336, 342, lix, 60, 61n, 61–62, 63, 64, 65n, 66, 346, 352, 355–56, 358, 364, 376, 387, 67, 68–69, 70, 71, 72–73, 75n, 78n, 388, 395 80n, 81n, 82n, 84n, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, gives advice, xlv–xlvi 96, 100, 102, 105, 106, 108, 109–10, on government, 257–58, 301, 350 111, 112, 115, 119, 121, 125, 127, 128, and happiness, xi, 255 132, 135, 140, 145, 148n, 150, 161, Harvard University 162, 174, 186, 192, 195, 202, 203, 204, classmates, xi, xxi 208, 211, 219–20, 224, 230–31, 237, class reunion, 45 238, 246, 249–50, 254, 260, 265, 268, his fellowship, 37, 38, 38n, 44, 101, 277, 278, 296, 299, 302, 310, 331, 335, 201 336, 347, 353–54, 362, 389, 394 friends, xi his living arrangements, xi, xiv, xv, graduation from, xiii, 58 xvi–xvii, xviii, xxi, 15, 19, 224–25, Harvard Lampoon, draws cartoons 309 for, xlvi on London, 110 professor at, xli, lxi on Lowell, xxiv resignation from, lviii, lix, lxi, 383, Lowell, friendship with, xxv 384n on mathematics, 4 Santayana on, xxi his meals, 161–62, 277, 311 Stoughton Hall, lived in, 137, 137n his memory, 155, 252–53, 259 mentioned, xlv, xlvi, li, 94, 97, 178, on men, 47 220, 227, 321 on nations’ powers, 173, 174–75 and the Hasty Pudding Club, xlvi and natural sciences, 345 his health, xi, xiv, xvii, 5, 8, 9, 10–11, and the news, 276 14, 15, 16, 17–18, 19–20, 21, 22, 23, Nicholas Murray Butler Gold Medal, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, awarded, 145 46, 58, 59, 61n, 62, 64, 66, 72, 73, 75, his nurse(s), 9, 14 78n, 80n, 81n, 82n, 85, 85n, 87, 89, on old age, 140, 155, 195, 215 92, 95, 97, 102, 112, 113, 127, 159n, and others’ opinions, lix–lx 186, 195, 202, 206, 212, 225, 229, 231, his outlook, 121 239, 264, 277, 278, 279n, 330, 383 on , 317 on history, 79, 138, 300, 306 , lived in, 317 his humor, xlvii–xlix his passport, 21, 40, 81 and ideas, 256 his permanent address, 275 on intellectuals, 26 his personal interactions, lxii international affairs, view on, lv–lvi, his personality and character, xlv, xlix, lxii–lxiii lxii, lxii–lxiii, lxiv interviewed, 97, 108, 112, 113, 301, Philosophical Club, president of, xlvi 301n, 307 philosophy and religion and H. James, xlix and aesthetics, xliv, 343 on Jews, lvii–lviii, lxiii on animal faith, 158, 158n, 344 and language(s), xli, xlvii, lxiii, 242, 269, Aristotle, influenced by, 5n 307, 314, 408, 410 the arts, 113 on law, 222–23 and the beautiful, 318 Index 555 on British philosophy, 243, 344 Paul (Bible), xxiii is a Catholic, 174, 192, 374 is a philosopher, lx–lxi, 116, 215, and Catholicism, xliii, lxv, 374, 394 293–94, 307 and Christianity, lvii, 221, 245–46, on philosophers, xliii, lix, lxi, 27–28, 364 30–31, 41–42, 113 and Christians, 245 on his philosophy, xxiii, xlii, xliii, 7, concepts, 27–28 16, 19, 27, 30, 73, 83n, 84–85n, on Darwin, 221 93, 124, 151, 177, 187, 232, and datum, 344 328–29, 364, 374, 380 Descartes, xxiii on philosophy, 16, 41-42 on egotism, 164 philosophy, and the history of, 349 Einstein, xxiii philosophy, and the study of, 313–14 on empiricists, 339 his philosophy, critics of, liv, 27, 152, essence, xlii, 4, 27, 247, 295, 314, 155, 236, 247–48, 255, 264, 344, 345, 347, 348n, 370 328–29, 339, 345, 346, 364 and essence-value, 334 on Plato, 221 and ethics, xliv Plato, influenced by, 5n existence, 4, 78, 349 proof(s), 4 existentialism, xxiii publication of, 98 fact(s), 4, 349 Puritanism, 289 and finances, 15 and the realm of spirit, 221 and flux, 370 relationship(s), 4 and freewill, 349 and relativism, xliv and French Existentialists, 357 and religion, xliii, xliv, lxv, 26, 31, and Greek philosophy, xlii 97, 121, 174 on idea(s), xlii religious tradition, 4 on intuition, xlii on the self, xlii and Italian philosophers, 26 and sense-data, 329 Italian philosophy, 41 Socrates, xxiii and Jesus, 121, 220, 221, 282, Spinoza, influenced by, 5n 297–98 and spirit, xlii–xliii, xliv, 78, 345 and Jews, 104, 106, 129 substance, 4 Judaism, 289 substitution, 28 and knowledge, 344 tautology, 4 and the life of reason, xlii teaching, lx logic, 4 is a theologian, 174 materialism, xliv, 4, 236 and theory of matter, xxiii and material reality, 343–44 transience, 19 on matter, xlii, 242–43 and truth, 4, 345 and metaphysics, 345 and the Upanishads, 150 modern philosophy, history of, 6 photograph(s) of, xlix, lxiv, 13, 40, 94, and Montaigne, 380 95, 97, 108, 112, 113, 121, 136 and moral relativism, xlv, lxiv on photography, 94, 95, 388 and mythology, 4, 244 as a poet, 93, 165 and naturalism, xliii, 97, 234–35 on poetry, 138, 189, 272, 315 a naturalist, 175, 307 on poets, 189 natural world, 4 his political views, 116–17, 120, 151, natura naturans, 4, 5n 162–63, 170, 173, 193–94, 203, and nature, xliii, 73, 234–35, 296, 222–23, 264, 321–22, 389 349 and politics, xix, xxii, lv, lvii, lxii–lxiii, and noumenon, 242 lxvi, 121, 200, 228, 239–40, 244, 269, 556 The Letters of George Santayana

Santayana, George (continued ) “A General Confession,” 314, 315n 275, 289, 300, 348 and general public, 6 portrait of, xlix, lxiv, 94, 94n, 137 The Genteel Tradition at Bay, 273 portraits, family, 137 A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems, his possessions, 90 245, 245n and power of attorney, 105, 150, 155, The Idea of Christ in the Gospels ;or, 167 in Man, xi, xv, xvii, xix, 85, publications 85n, 87, 93, 97, 99, 104, 113, 114, accuracy in, 138 114n, 121, 126, 128, 129–30, 142, “Apologia Pro Mente Sua,” 6, 7n, 12, 143n, 146, 146n, 147, 152, 156, 13, 13n, 14, 16, 20, 26, 30, 124, 157, 158, 161, 165, 169, 170, 174, 315n 176, 180, 184, 186, 191, 196, 197, article(s), xxii 200–201, 205, 206, 207, 209–10, “As in the midst of battle there is 221, 231–32, 239, 239n, 241–42, room,” 189, 190n 245, 246, 247–48, 250–51, 253, in Atlantic Monthly, xiv 254, 255, 258–59, 262, 264, 267, his audience, 110–11 272, 272n, 273, 282, 284, 287, “A Brief History of My Opinions,” 298, 319, 320, 337, 338, 364, 36, 36n 365n, 384, 385, 389–90, 391 censorship, self-imposed, 8 “The Idler and His Works,” 129, Character and Opinion in the United 130n States, 152, 307 interest in, 83n The Complete Poems of George Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, Santayana (ed. Holzberger), 402 264, 265n and copyright, 13, 16 introductions for, 13, 13n, 14, 16, 17, and Cory, 188, 201, 204, 207–8, 23, 25, 29, 32 209n, 212–13, 232, 374 Kristus I Evangelierna (trans. critical edition, xiii Hylander), 337, 337n “Dedication of the First Sonnets to a The Last Puritan, xiii, xix, xli, l, lxiv, friend on the eve of his 12n, 48, 56, 82n, 87n, 127, 146n, marriage,” 137n 157, 159n, 172, 172n, 180, 194, delay(s), xiv, xv 224, 252–53, 254, 254n, 264, Dialogues in Limbo, 24, 25, 31, 104, 290, 349n, 364, 371, 374 207, 210, 363, 364 and legal issues, 365–67, 372, 377–78 Dialogues in Limbo, With Three New “Les Faux pas de la philosophic,” Dialogues, 331, 332n, 332, 335, xxiii 340, 363, 374, 384n, 392 The Life of Reason, lxi, 27, 28n, 314, Dominations and Powers, xi, xx, xxii, 364 xxiii, 8, 47, 93, 97, 99, 113, 126, “Locke and the Frontiers of 151, 172, 175, 176, 178, 194, 200, Common Sense,” 274, 275n 236n, 239–40, 243, 244, 246, Lucifer, or the Heavenly Truce: A 260–61, 264, 275, 276n, 277, 280, Theological Tragedy, 180, 181n 284, 289, 292, 303, 304, 305n, his manuscript(s), 91, 98, 103, 110, 307, 308n, 309, 324, 325n, 331, 122, 126, 160, 165, 171, 175, 188, 332, 337, 340, 352, 358, 360, 205, 278, 281 362, 376, 383, 394, 395n “Many Nations in One Empire,” his early plays, 171, 178, 234 162–63, 172–73, 193, 210, 210n, Egotism in German Philosophy, 16, 24, 248, 394, 395n 25n, 164, 216, 217n The Marriage of Venus: A Comedy, 165, errors in, xvi, 12, 13, 13n, 14, 20, 165n, 175–76, 176n, 180–81, 194, 21n, 25, 25n, 26, 410 200, 229, 231 Index 557

The Middle Span, xiii, xvi, xvii, xix, The Realm of Essence, xlii, 13, 16, 242, 85, 85n, 87, 88, 94, 94n, 95, 98, 321 103, 110, 111, 121, 123, 127, 128, The Realm of Matter, xlii, liv, 187, 321 129, 137n, 139, 141, 145, 146n, The Realm of Spirit, xlii, liv, 5, 6n, 25, 152, 153n, 153, 155, 157, 162, 25n, 26, 30, 34, 78, 97, 161, 248, 188, 191, 196, 210, 235, 243, 245, 267, 320–21, 358, 386, 387n 253, 291, 294, 295n, 339, The Realm of Truth, xlii, 5, 6n, 365–68, 372, 377–78, 379n, 213–14, 321, 371, 386, 387n 385–86, 389 Realms of Being, xlii–xliii, 6, 7, 7n, 13, My Host the World, xiii, xvii, xix, 98, 13n, 14, 16, 17, 23, 25, 29, 32, 99n, 146n, 155, 157, 169, 331, 139, 139n, 145, 161, 177, 259, 335, 354, 358, 359n, 360, 361, 267, 320, 322, 325n, 358, 371, 361n, 362, 369–70, 373 389, 390, 390n, 391–92 Obiter Scripta (ed. Buchler and Reason in Religion, 372n Schwartz), 259, 260n reviews of, 26, 155, 232, 235, 235n, “Ode V,” 144n 242, 247–48, 250, 254, 255, 262 “On the Three Philosophical Poets,” Santayana on, 94, 99, 103, 130, 250, 251n 180–81, 199–200, 200–201, “Papillon de Parnasse,” translates, 239–40, 242, 267, 284, 294 263n Scepticism and Animal Faith, 6, 16, Persons and Places, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 187, 363, 380n xvi, xvii, xix, xx, xlv, lii, lxv, 5, The Sense of , 245, 245n, 322, 6n, 8, 8n, 11, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 323, 328 25, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, Soliloquies in England, 104, 104n, 364 40n, 46, 47, 48n, 48, 53, 55, 56n, “Some Corollaries to Materialism,” 56–57, 58, 58n, 60-61, 61n, 62, 306, 306n, 315, 319, 332 63, 63–64n, 66–67, 68, 81n, 82n, his sonnets, 154 85, 86–87, 87n, 88, 89n, 89, 91, Sonnets and Other Verses, lxiv 92n, 92–93, 102, 102–3n, 104, and Spinoza, 364, 365n 104n, 106–7, 108–9, 109n, 113, Three Philosophical Poets, 269, 269n, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130n, 136–37, 272, 309 138, 146, 146n, 153n, 165, 177n, “Tibullus, Detained by Illness to his 180, 182, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, chief Massalla, The Opening and 192, 193n, 195, 196, 201, 204, the Close,” 165, 166n 207–8, 209n, 212–13, 224, 229, “To W. P.,” 137n 235, 235n, 252n, 264, 278, 278n, his translations, 165, 166n, 322 279n, 287, 294, 305–6, 376, 384 translations of, 23, 26, 82n, 177n, Philosophers at Court, 165, 165n, 175, 196, 252–53, 254n, 313, 328, 180, 181, 200, 231 337, 349n, 374, 384, 385, The Philosophy of George Santayana 389–90, 390n, 391–92 (ed. Schilpp), 6, 7n, 12, 13, 14, 16, “Ultimate Religion,” 274, 274n 17, 18, 20, 21n, 26, 27, 31, 31n, “The Unknowable,” 3, 3n, 4n 93, 124, 315n “The Virtue of ” Poems: Selected by the Author and (unpublished), 331, 335 Revised, xlviii “[Ward’s],” 49n his poetry, 100n, 165, 172n Winds of Doctrine, 25n The Poet’s Testament, xix, xxiv, 98, The Works of George Santayana (Triton 99n, 165n, 175, 176, 232, 234, Edition), 5, 6n, 37, 94, 136, 216, 335, 335n, 354 217n, 250, 251n, 316, 321, 333, “The Poet’s Testament,” 165, 165n 357–58, 371, 386, 387n reader response to, 13, 171–72, 180 558 The Letters of George Santayana

Santayana, George (continued ) philosophy, 241, 256 publications (continued ) politics, 241 and World War II, 13 Popper, 284, 285, 287 mentioned, 174, 354 Privitera, 228 and quoting, 168–69, 213–14 Reves, 222–23, 228 on race, lviii Robertson, 297–98 his readers, 172 Russell, Bertrand, 14, 15, 31, 33, 34, reads 328–29 Abbagnano, 41 Russell, Mary, 26 Adams, 78–79 Sartre, xxiii American books, xxii, 14, 15 Sitwell, 289, 293 Aquinas, 93 Stalin, 235, 236, 237, 239, 241, 244, Austen, 93 246, 248, 255 Bates, 269–70 Terence, 14, 216–17, 235 Benda, 289, 291 Toynbee, xxii, 292, 296, 297, 298, Benson, 93 299, 300, 303, 306, 309, 319, Bible, 93, 256 348, 352–53, 360, 383, 395 Birnbaum, 218, 317–18 Vanburgh, 168 Camus, xxiii von Hagen, 296 Cavalcanti, xli Wild, 327 Chesterton, 168–69 his relationships, l Ciano, 353, 383 his reputation, 264 Clemens, 228 his residence permit, 81n Collingwood, 239, 242, 244, 246 Rome, Santayana’s residency in, xii, xiv, Connolly, 203, 206, 209, 210, 226 xli Couchoud, 297–98 Rosamond, relationship with, 134 Dante, xli and B. Russell, xxiii Davy, 315, 319 J. Russell, relationship with, li, lii, liii De Ruggiero, 308, 309, 319 and the Sacco and Vanzetti case, lvi Dickens, 93 his sexual orientation, l, l–li, lii, lxiv, lxv Einstein, xxiii his signature, 409–10 European books, xxii on social classes, 255, 256 French books, 33, 170, 174 on , lxvi Gerber, 313 on society, lxvi, 9, 43, 151, 215, 227, 289 Guénon, 326 and solitude, lix, 116–17 Heidegger, xxiii Spain, born in, xli Italian Platonizing poets, xli his Spanish citizenship, 45, 50, 301, 307, on Jaspers, 31 366 Juvenalis, 106 on Spanish families, 53 Kallen, 123 and Spanish names, 106, 107 Latin poets, 256 Strong, relationship with, lv, lxv Lewis, 326 R. Sturgis (great nephew), relationship Lowell, 350–51, 353, 354, 360, 372, with, 214–15 390–91 Susan, relationship with, l Marianoff and Wayne, 330 on teaching, lx Michelangelo, xli and totalitarianism, xxi Miller, 325, 326–27 on traveling, 261 Moore, 327 travel plans Newman, 93 by airplane, xiii newspapers, 81n complications, xiii, xiv Nock, 266 England, 3 Index 559

Fiuggi, xii, 22, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41, 126, 127, 128, 347 42–43, 46, 56, 58 and food rationing, 33 Glion-sur-Montreux (Switzerland), hardships during, xi, xii, xvii, xviii 34 and his living arrangements, 35, The Hague, lix 42–43, 45, 49, 50–51, 53, 55, 57, Paris, 3n 59, 60, 61–62, 63, 66, 68–69, 72, Rome, 52, 54, 55 74–75n, 82n, 92, 112 and Spain, xiii, 36, 49, 50, 51–52, and his manuscripts, 77 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68, 73 packages, receives during, xvii, xviii and Switzerland, xii, xiii, xv, 35, 36, and peace, 24 45, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 58, 62, post-war, his ideas for, xix 63, 67, 68, 73, 75n on profiteering, 18 Venice, 5, 72 on reconstruction, xix and World War II, xii, 21, 22, 24, regulations, 251, 290 28, 32, 34, 35–36, 39, 42–43, 45, restrictions during, xi, xvii 49, 50–51, 51–52, 53, 54, 55, 57, Santayana on, xix, 9, 43, 71–72, 73, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 82n, 84–85n, 108, 113, 126, 72, 75 127–28, 139, 163, 195, 228, 260 mentioned, 224 and his works, 13, 146, 365, 376 and United Nations, xix mentioned, lvi, 24, 29, 35, 37, 46, and visa(s), xii, 21, 34, 45, 57, 58, 63, 67, 88, 113, 133, 148n, 159n, 169, 68 224, 313, 314, 341, 351 visitors, xvi, xvii, xviii, xx, xxi, xxiv, 86, his writing 90, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 100, 102, 108, his final intentions, 399 110, 112, 113, 121, 123, 139, 145, 156, his manuscripts, 403 159n, 169, 170, 174, 192, 195, 197, 199, mechanics of, 400–401, 407–8 207, 224, 231, 264, 307, 395 productivity, xi, xvii, xxii, xxiii on war, lv, lvi revisions, xvii, xxii and the Werra (ship), 47, 48n satisfaction with, xvii his will, 37, 89, 91, 101, 103, 118, 120, his spelling, 399, 400, 401, 407 126, 130, 131, 149, 155, 162, 176, 188, his technique, xliv 191 and word usage, 136, 138–39, 231 on women, xlviii, l–li, 6, 44, 47 and World War II, xi and World War I, xviii, lv, lv–lvi, 87, 93, and The Works of George Santayana 97, 113, 129, 139, 151, 239 (MIT), 399 World War II on his writing, xlvi, 3, 7, 12, 18, 25, censors, 5, 8, 8n, 14, 28, 95, 122 30, 47, 70, 77, 78n, 94, 97, 113, and correspondence, xiv, xv, xvi, 114, 117, 161, 180–81, 195, 199, xvii, 20, 28, 34, 46, 55, 57, 58, 206, 227, 231–32, 239, 240, 316, 63, 66–67, 68, 70–71, 73, 75n, 324, 325n, 331, 352, 380n 76n, 78n, 80n, 100, 103, 111, 112, mentioned, xlvi, 400–401 120, 122, 144, 148n, 167, 169–70, on younger generation, 134, 169, 184, 172, 180, 186, 197, 198, 210, 219, 215, 256, 356–57 268, 302, 310 his youth, lix, 111, 170, 231–32 and exchange rates, 65–66, 76, Santayana, Hermenegilda Zabalgoitia 107, 109–10, 115 108n and finances, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xviii, Santayana, Josefina Borrás y Carbonell de 21, 24, 39, 42–43, 45, 47, 49, (Santayana’s mother) 50–51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 62, 67, 68, identified, 108n 71, 73, 76n, 90, 112, 114–15, 125, her name, 106, 107 560 The Letters of George Santayana

Santayana, Josefina Borrás y Carbonell de Santayana on, 279n (continued ) mentioned, 10n, 80n, 102n, 159n, 252n her parents, 106, 108n Sastre, Susan Sturgis de (Santayana’s half and Persons and Places, 30, 40 sister, wife of Celedonio Sastre), Robert Sturgis (Santayana’s father’s Celedonio, marriage to, 10n brother), money from, 23, 23n death of, 10, 66 mentioned, 21n, 107n, 137 her money, 176 Santayana, Manuel Ruiz de and Persons and Places, 40 identified, 108n portrait of, 137 his wife, 107 Santayana, relationship with, 10n “Santayana at Cambridge” (Münsterberg), and Santayana’s correspondence, 403 lxiv mentioned, xii, xv, xlvi, lix, 376, 408 “Santayana’s Doctrine of Essence” Sastre, Teresa Fernández de (wife of Luis (Hartshorne), 26, 27n Sastre González), 102n “Santayana’s Philosophical Inheritance” Sastre González, Eduardo, 101n (Sullivan), 26, 27n Sastre González, José “Pepe” Santayana: The Later Years, A Portrait with his family, 10, 80n, 82n, 279n Letters (Cory), xlvii, lxiv, lxv, 408, 410, identified, 10n 411 letter(s) to, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 158, 251, “Santayana, The Man and the Philosopher” 279 (Brownell), 12, 12n, 31 Santayana, correspondence with, 159n “Santayana: the U.S. Army in Rome his wife, death of, 279n Discovers the Last Puritan Aloof, mentioned, xv, 10, 70, 76n, 81n, 102n, Serene,” 94, 94n 131 Santo Stefano Rotondo (church), 64, 65n, Sastre González, Luis 69 his children, 101 Sargent, John Singer identified, 101n his art, 179, 218 mentioned, 102n, 131 identified, 179n Sastre González, Rafael Santayana on, 179, 218 identified, 75n Sartre, Jean-Paul mentioned, 75, 101, 131 identified, 342n Sastre Hernández, Adelaida (daughter of and Les Temps modernes, 382, 382n, 383 Rafael and Adelaida), 75n, 76n, 101, “Qu’est-ce que la litterature?,” 382, 101n 383n Sastre Hernández, María Josefa (daughter Santayana on, 341, 343, 357 of Rafael and Adelaida), 75n, 76n, Santayana reads, xxiii 81n, 101, 101n mentioned, lvi Sastre Hernández, Rafael (son of Rafael Sastre family, xv, 64, 101, 131, 138n, 408 and Adelaida), 75n, 102n Sastre, Adelaida Hernandez de (wife of Sastre Martín, Eduardo (son of José and Rafael Sastre) Isabel), 10, 10n, 101, 102n identified, 75n Sastre Martín, Isabella (daughter of José letter(s) to, 74, 75n, 80 and Isabel), 10n, 101, 102n and Santayana’s finances, 76n Sastre Martín, Josefina (daughter of José and Santayana’s living arrangements, and Isabel), 10, 10n, 101, 102n 74–75 Sastre Martín, Roberto (son of José and mentioned, 78, 101, 101n Isabel), 10n, 101, 102n, 279n Sastre, Isabel Martín de (wife of José Sastre Sastre Martín, Susana (daughter of José and González), Isabel), 10n, 101, 102n her children, 279n Sastre Martín, Teresa (daughter of José and death of, xii, 279n Isabel), 10n, 101, 102n Index 561

Sastre Serrano, Celedonio (Santayana), 245, 245n, identified, 101n 322, 323, 328 Susan, marriage to, 10n Sentís, Carlos, 252n mentioned, 10n, 408 Shakespeare, William The Saturday Review of Literature, lv Bridges on, 318 Satyricon (Petronius), 234–35, 235n The Comedy of Errors, 294, 294n The Scarlet Tree (Sitwell), 273, 273n, 289, 291 Hamlet, 318, 318n Scepticism and Animal Faith (Santayana), 6, Santayana on, 14, 318 16, 187, 363, 380n mentioned, 168 Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott Shippen, Eugene Rodman identified, 3n “George Santayana,” 117, 117n mentioned, 3 identified, 117n Schilpp, Paul Arthur letter(s) to, 117 and “Apologia Pro Mente Sua,” 12, 13, his writing, Santayana on, 117 16, 20, 26, 30 mentioned, 165 and copyright, 13, 16 “Shortest Way to Nirvana” (Kazin), 282, identified, 12n 282n letter(s) to, 12, 13, 17, 20, 30 A Shropshire Lad (Housman), 165, 166n The Library of Living Philosophers Sibelle, Luciano The Philosophy of Alfred North Realms of Being, dissertation on, 322 Whitehead, 17, 18n The Sense of Beauty, translates, 322, 323, The Philosophy of George Santayana, 6, 328 7n, 12, 12n, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, mentioned, 233, 233n 26, 27, 31n, 93, 124, 315n Simon & Schuster (publisher), 35, 36 The Philosophy of John Dewey, 13, 13n Sitwell, Francis Osbert Sacheverell and philosophers, lxv Left Hand, Right Hand: An Autobiography, The Realm of Spirit, reviews, 26 289, 290, 290n, 291, 293, 323 Schneider, Herbert Wallace Santayana on, 289, 293 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233, The Scarlet Tree, 273, 273n, 289, 291 248 mentioned, 319 identified, 42n Slade, Conrad Hensler mentioned, 41 identified, 193n Schopenhauer, Arthur letter(s) to, 192 identified, 286n and Persons and Places, 192, 193n mentioned, l, 285 Santayana on, 192 Science and Idealism (Cornforth), 361n his son, 193n Science Versus Idealism (Cornforth), 360–61, mentioned, xx 361n, 370 Smith, Logan Pearsall, xlvii Scott, Maria Selena Burney Smith, Robert Dickson Jr. identified, 157n identified, 322n mentioned, 157, 183, 183n, 366, 367, mentioned, 321 368n, 377 Smith, Thomas Vernor The Screwtape Letters (Lewis), 326, 327n and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 233 Scribner, Charles (1890–1952), xlvii identified, 96n Scrutiny (magazine), 274, 275n The Philosophic Way of Life in America, 99, A Selection of Engravings on Wood (Bewich 100n with Rayner), 340, 340n, 341 quotes Santayana, 99 “Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 256, 256n mentioned, 113 562 The Letters of George Santayana

Social classes, 256 his philosophy, Santayana on, 4, 21 Socialism, Santayana on, 26 and Santayana, xxiii Society, Santayana on, 9, 151, 227 Santayana influenced by, 5n, 18 Society for the Advancement of American and “Ultimate Religion,” 274n Philosophy, 402 mentioned, lvii, lxi, 41, 221, 324, 364, Socrates 365n, 370 identified, 325n Spirindelli, Federico, 313 and Plato, 348 Spirit, Santayana on, xlii–xliii, xliv, 78, 345 and Santayana, xxiii Springer (unidentified), 315 Santayana on, 324, 363 S. S. Pierce & Co (Boston grocery store), mentioned, 5, 19 199, 200n, 226, 240 Soliloquies in England (Santayana), 104, 104n, St. Peter’s Church (Vatican City), 22, 22n 364 “Stabat Mater Dolorosa” (Roman Catholic Solomon (Bible), lvii, 99 hymn), 179 “Some Corollaries to Materialism” Stafford, Jean (Santayana), 306, 306n, 315, 319, 332 identified, 385n “Some Observations on the Philosophy of her marriage, xxv George Santayana” (Cory), 14 mentioned, 385, 393 “Song of Myself” (Whitman), 192, 193n Stalin, Joseph Sonnets and Other Verses (Santayana), lxiv identified, 236n South American Zoo (von Hagen), 296, 296n Questioni del Leninismo, 235, 235n, 236, Spain 237, 239, 241, 244, 246, 248, 255, 370 Alfonso XIII, 15, 15n, 19 Santayana on, 236, 239 architecture, 216 mentioned, 300 art, 179 Stark, Miss (unidentified) and Catholicism, 374 letter(s) to, 338 civil war, 170, 410 and Santayana’s finances, 338 Fascists, lxiii mentioned, 357 government, xv Stein, William Bysshe, xliv , 382 Steinbeck, John Ernst political situation in, 170 identified, 217n Santayana on, xlviii, 64, 69, 80n, 295 mentioned, 216 and Santayana’s living arrangements, Steiner, Rudolf 43, 49, 50, 51–52, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, Christianity as Mystical Fact and the 66, 67, 68, 73, 74–75n Mysteries of Antiquity, 262, 262n and Spanish adventurers, 145 identified, 262n and Spanish names, 106, 107, 157 Stewart, John Alexander and World War II, 45 Christ Church, professor at, 3 mentioned, xiii, xiv, xv, xli, 28, 36, 76, identified, 3n 80n, 376 Stickney, Joseph Trumbull “Speaking of Books” (Adams), 307, 308n identified, 352n Spencer, Herbert his poetry, 351, 392 identified, 3n St. John’s Garden (Oxford), 371 his philosophy, 3n St. Martin’s Day, 190, 191n “The Unknowable,” Santayana lecture Stock market crash of 1929, 375 on, 3 Strong, Charles Augustus mentioned, 12 on America, xlviii Spinoza, Baruch (or Benedict) and Cory, lxv, 89, 164, 230 Ethics, 5n and Cory, his secretary, xx, 8n, 14, 44, identified, 5n 187–88 natura naturans, 4, 5n Cory’s allowance, liv Index 563

Cory visits, liv Josephine, inheritance from, 149 his daughter, xlviii letter(s) to, 5, 9, 10, 15, 18, 21, 22, 28, death of, 188 33, 40, 42, 44, 50, 53, 54, 57, 59, 60, his granddaughter, 24 61, 64, 65, 70, 71, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, identified, 38n 95, 100, 105, 109, 114 his International Philosophical marriage, first, xviii Fellowship Fund, xiv, xxii, 33, 34n, and Mercedes’s finances, 50, 53, 134–35 37, 38, 44, 66, 89, 188, 190–91, 209n, Santayana, relationship with, xvi, xviii 230, 238, 260, 277, 291, 292n, 309, Santayana and Power of Attorney, 105 362, 363n Santayana on, liii, lxv, 116 Le Balze, liv, lxiii, 148n, 149n and Santayana’s finances, xii, xiii, xiv, Santayana, relationship with, lxv, lv xv, xviii, 13, 17, 20, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, and Santayana’s correspondence, xlii, 22, 23, 24, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, lxiii 42–43, 45, 47, 50–51, 52, 53, 54, 55, his wife, lxiii–lxiv 59, 60, 62, 65–66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, mentioned, 334 73, 75n, 76, 78n, 80n, 82n, 86, 88, Strong, Elizabeth “Bessie” Rockefeller (Mrs. 89–90, 90–91, 91–92, 95–96, 98, 101, C. A. Strong), xliii–lxiv 105, 106, 109–10, 116, 119, 121, Strong, Margaret 122–23, 124, 125, 126–27, 128, 133, identified, 368n 142, 155, 181–83, 188, 205, 208, 212, mentioned, 367, 368n 219, 249, 310, 387, 388 Strong-Cuevas, Elizabeth, lxiv Santayana’s heir, xv, xvi, xx, 23n, 98, Stude, Henry Jr. 126, 185 identified, 90n and Santayana’s will, 101, 103 mentioned, 89, 91, 92 his second marriage, xviii, xx, 90n, 118, Studi Filosofici ( journal), 23, 26 119n, 119–20, 122, 135n, 176 A Study of History (Toynbee), xxii, 285, travel plans, 33 286n, 287, 291, 292, 296, 297, 298, and war-time correspondence, 80n, 92, 299, 300, 303, 306, 308, 309, 312, 319, 92n 329, 330, 335, 348, 352–53, 360, 383, his will, 118 395 mentioned, xi, xv, xvi, xlvi, xlviii, xlix, The Study of History, abridgement of lviii, lxvi, 19, 43n, 87n, 125, 137, 167, (Somervell), 330, 331n 176, 201, 216, 229, 271, 296, 364 Sturgis, Carol Avery (Mrs. George Sturgis), Sturgis, Howard Overing 90n, 119n, 134, 135n, 159n, 176, 184, identified, 368n 185 mentioned, 367 Sturgis, Ellen Gardner Hodges, 5n Sturgis, Joan “Chiquita” Eleanor (Mrs. Sturgis, George (Santayana’s mother’s first Robert “Bob” Sturgis) husband), 106, 108n, 137n identified, 357n Sturgis, George (Santayana’s nephew) mentioned, 356, 357n, 375–76, 395 his children, xx, 33, 88n, 101, 131, 182, Sturgis, Josefina Borrás, 137, 137n 186 Sturgis, Joseph Borrás (Pepín), 137, 137n and Cory, xv, 15, 23, 61, 63, 86, 89, 105 Sturgis, Josephine Borrás (Santayana’s half death of, xii, xviii, xx, 6n, 23n, 105n, sister) 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 126, 129, identified, 136n 131, 133, 134, 142, 155, 159n, 185, 256 Josephine and George’s inheritance his divorce, xvi, xx, lxv, 6n, 89, 90n, from, 149 92n, 101, 116, 119 Mercedes, legacy to, 135, 149, 176 his family, 82n and Santayana’s correspondence, 415 identified, 5n Santayana’s inheritance from, 149, 186 his illegitimate son, 184–85 564 The Letters of George Santayana

Sturgis, Nathaniel Russell (Santayana’s great and Harvard University, liii, 183–84, nephew) 215, 216 and his father’s death, 118 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 184, photograph(s) of, 246, 266, 294 233, 241 and religion, 174 identified, 6n, 88n Santayana on, 266 letter(s) to, 183, 205, 214, 288, 394 Santayana’s heir, xx, 186, 230 and The Middle Span, 162 mentioned, 6n, 33, 101, 116, 162, 162n, photograph(s) of, 246, 266 182, 185, 213, 220, 247, 249, 256, 303, his professors, 215 311, 321 and religion, 174 Sturgis, Neville (Santayana’s great nephew) returns home, 173–74 his education, 356 Santayana, relationship with, 214–15 and his father’s death, 118 Santayana, visits in Rome, xvi, xviii in London, 110 Santayana on, liii, 88, 116, 119, 120, 133, and military service, 151, 356 134, 173–74, 240, 257–58, 266 photograph(s) of, 246, 266, 294 Santayana’s heir, xx, 186, 230 and religion, 174 his studies, 184 Santayana on, 266, 356 and travel, 170, 216, 394 Santayana’s heir, xx, 186, 230 and the U.S. Air Force, liii, 120, 151, mentioned, 6n, 33, 101, 109, 110n, 116, 170, 171n, 174, 183, 184, 216 134, 182, 185, 213, 220, 247, 249, 256, visits Santayana, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 96, 266, 303, 311, 321, 342 101, 116, 118, 120, 131, 170 Sturgis, Robert Shaw (Santayana’s mother’s his wedding, 387, 394 brother-in-law) his writing, 241, 257, 258 Josefina, gives money to, 23, 23n mentioned, xx, 33, 92n, 95, 116, 182, mentioned, 56n 198, 201, 212, 213, 220, 245, 247, 249, Sturgis, Robert Shaw (Santayana’s half 256, 258, 303, 321, 342 brother) Sturgis, Rosamond Thomas Bennett (Mrs. identified, 5n George Sturgis) Mercedes, legacy to, 135, 149, 176 her brother, 116, 151 Santayana, legacy to, 176 and charity, lvii Santayana, relationship with, xviii check, Santayana sends, 272, 347, 364, Santayana on, liii, 279n 374, 386, 387 and Santayana’s finances, 13, 116, 205, her children, 88n, 101, 116, 162n, 185, 387 256 mentioned, 6n, 25, 93, 116, 149, 216 her divorce, xvi, 6n, 13, 25, 89, 90n, Sturgis, Robert Shaw (Santayana’s great 92n, 101, 116, 256 nephew) and education, 227 advice, Santayana gives, 240 gifts, sends Santayana, xviii, xxi, xxiv, and architecture, liii, 119, 119n, 170, 174, 132, 150, 161, 169, 190, 197, 199, 211, 241, 356 217, 222, 226–27, 236, 237, 245, 257, in the Army Air Force, xvi 268, 269, 271, 293, 296, 302–3, “Colorful Crimson History Began with 306–7, 308, 312, 320, 321, 324, 336, Off-Color Magenta …,” 257, 258n 342, 346, 355–56, 364, 376, 387, 395 The Crimson, president of, 217, 217n, 240, and housework, 256 257, 288, 311 and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 184, engaged, 356, 375–76 233 and his father’s death, 118, 119, 133 identified, 6n and his father’s illegitimate son, 185 letter(s) to, 116, 118, 132, 150, 161, 169, and flying, 216 173, 197, 199, 211, 212, 222, 226, 236, gifts, sends Santayana, 190 237, 240, 245, 257, 265, 268, 293, Index 565

302, 306, 308, 321, 324, 336, 342, and Santayana’s finances, 133–34, 142, 346, 355, 375, 387 148 marriage, xviii and the Vatican, 88, 153 photograph(s) of, 246, 321 mentioned, xvi, 98, 158, 199 her political views, 116, 151 Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) and religion, 174 Adelphi, 14, 14n Santayana, relationship with, xviii, 134 identified, 14n Santayana on, 13 his writing, Santayana on, 14, 235 and G. Sturgis’s death, 118, 134 mentioned, 216–17, 231 mentioned, xvi, xviii, xix, xxi, xxii, Theatre I (Sartre), 342n xxiii, xliv, lxv, lxvi, 159n, 201, 205, Theory of matter, xxiii 216, 288 Thisbe. See Pyramus and Thisbe Sturgis, Susan Brimmer Inches (Mrs. Thomas Cook & Son Robert Shaw Sturgis), 56, 56n identified, 19n Sturgis, William C., xlvi travelers checks, 18, 21, 45, 51, 52, 57, Sturgis family, xiii, 23, 23n, 40, 46, 48, 55, 59, 65, 90 56, 63, 131, 191, 201, 226, 228, 229, Thomason, Mr. (unidentified), 338 244, 277, 283, 287, 304, 387 Thompson (unidentified), 303 Substance, 4 Thorndike, Edward Lee Sudamérica los llamaba (von Hagen), 237, identified, 146n 238n Nicholas Murray Butler Gold Medal, Suez Canal, 194, 194n receives, 145, 146n Suleiman the Magnificent, 327, 328n Thoron, Ward Sullivan, Celestine J. Jr. identified, 49n identified, 27n Lyman on, 48 Santayana on, 26 Santayana on, 48 “Santayana’s Philosophical Inheritance,” The Thought and Character of 26, 27n (Perry), 215, 217n Summa Theologiae (Aquinas), 93, 93n “The Thought of George Santayana in the Swami (unidentified), 161 Crisis of Contemporary Philosophy” Swift, Jonathan (Banfi), 26, 27n identified, 360n A Thousand and One Nights. See The mentioned, 359 Arabian Nights’ Entertainments Switzerland Three Philosophical Poets (Santayana), 269, consulate, 21 269n, 309 Glion-sur-Montreux, 34, 36 The Three Spheres of Society (Davy), 308, Hotel Bristol (Lugano), 42, 45, 53, 55 308n, 315, 319 Hôtel des Trois Couronnes (Vevey), 32, Tibullus, Albius 32n, 45, 67 Albii Tibulli Carmina, Liber Primus III, Hotel Victoria, 36 Santayana’s translates, 165, 166n and Santayana’s living arrangements, identified, 166n 35, 36, 43, 45, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, “Tibullus: detained by illness to his chief 62, 68, 73, 75n Massalla, (The Opening and the and visa(s), 57, 58, 63, 67, 68 Close)” (Santayana), 165, 166n mentioned, xii, xv, 28, 35, 52, 389 Time (magazine), 242, 243n The Times Literary Supplement ( journal) and “Choose, Leap and Be Free,” 229, Tautology, Santayana on, 4 229n Taylor, Myron C. The Folded Leaf, review of, 289–90, 290n identified, 89n identified, 225n letter(s) to, 133, 142, 147 and Philosophy and Politics, 360 566 The Letters of George Santayana

The Times Literary Supplement (continued ) death of, xii, 43, 43n, 44–45 Plato’s Theory of Man, review of, 298, identified, 27n 299, 300 letter(s) to, 26, 27 Santayana’s subscription to, xxi, 224, Santayana, friend of, 10 226, 229, 232 Santayana on, 44–45 mentioned, 274, 285, 330, 379, 403 mentioned, xlvii, lvii, 19 Tindall, Evelyn Toynbee, Arnold Joseph and the British Legation to the Vatican, identified, 286n 165, 334 A Study of History, xxii, 285, 286n, 287, and Dialogues in Limbo, With Three New 291, 292, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, Dialogues, 332, 340 303, 306, 308, 309, 312, 319, 329, 330, and Dominations and Powers, 178, 243, 335, 348, 352–53, 360, 383, 395 304, 332, 340 his writing, Santayana on, 292, 296, and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 99, 297, 298, 303, 306, 348 114, 114n, 142, 143n, 146, 147 mentioned, 370 identified, 12n Truman, Harry S. and The Last Puritan, 12n, 194 identified, 228n letter(s) to, 11, 17, 29, 30, 39, 56, 62, 76, mentioned, 228 85, 114, 142, 152, 171, 178, 202, 234, Truth, Santayana on, 4, 345 243, 281, 304, 313, 323, 332, 340, 346, Twain, Mark. See Clemens, Samuel 358, 361, 369, 373 Langhorne and The Marriage of Venus: A Comedy, 231 and The Middle Span, 88 and My Host the World, 358, 360, 361, “Ultimate Religion” (Santayana), 274, 274n 362, 369–70, 373 El ultimo puritano: memoria en forma de and Persons and Places, 11, 29, 30, 39, novela (trans. Baeza), 82n 56–57 Unamuno, Miguel de, 408 and Philosopher’s at Court, 175, 180, 200 United Nations, xix and Realms of Being, 17, 29 Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 334, 335n and Santayana’s early plays, 171, 178, University of Illinois, 347 234 University of Texas at Austin, 24, 402 Santayana’s payments to, 11, 17, 39, 62, University of Virginia, 402 76, 114, 142–43, 147, 152, 202, 281, “The Unknowable” (Santayana), 3n, 4n 304–5, 332, 334, 335, 340–41, 346 The Unquiet Grave, A Word Cycle (Connolly), and Santayana’s works, 39, 62, 77, 85, 203, 203n, 206–7, 209, 210, 226, 266 87, 114, 165, 171, 194, 278, 281, 313, Upanishads, 97, 98n, 150 331, 346 and The Sense of Beauty, 323 mentioned, xiii “The Vagabond” (The Crimson), 258, 258n “To A Spanish Friend” ( Johnson), 117, 117n Vagabond Scholar: A Venture into the Privacy of Togliatti, Palmiro George Santayana (Lind), lxiv identified, 236n Vanburgh, John Questioni del Leninismo, translated, 235, identified, 168n 235n, 237, 239, 241, 244, 246, 248, Santayana on, 168 255 Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, “To W. P.” (Santayana), 137n identified, 281n Toy, Crawford Howell Landscape with St. Anthony and St. Paul identified, 27n the Hermit, 280 and the Jewish Encyclopedia, 335n Santayana on, 280 Toy, Nancy Saunders (Mrs. Crawford Toy) and anti-Semitism, lvii Index 567

Vendôme Table Delicacies, 358, 358n Washington, George, 38 Verdi, Giuseppe Waterman, Charles. See Davy, Charles identified, 344n Weber, Alfred Rigoletto, 344, 344n Abschied von der bisherigen Geschichte; Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin Überwindung des Nihilismus, 329, 329n, identified, 144n 335 letter(s) to, 375 identified, 329n and poetry, 375 his writing, Santayana on, 337 “Poets versus readers,” 375n Webster’s Dictionary, 214, 214n, 241, 259 visits Santayana, 144, 144n Weeks, Edward A. mentioned, xxiv and Atlantic Monthly, 392 Villa Mattei (Rome, park), 70 identified, 392n Villa Borghese (Rome), 29n, 386, 387n Welles, [Benjamin] Sumner Villa Celimontana (Rome, park), 70 identified, 46n “The Virtue of Avicenna” (Santayana, mentioned, 45 unpublished), 331, 335 Werra (ship), 47, 48n Vita Nuova (Dante), 351, 352n Westenholz, Albert W. von Vivas, Eliseo identified, 102n “From The Life of Reason to The Last photograph of, 137 Puritan,” 12, 12n, 26 Santayana on, 102–3n identified, 12n mentioned, 102, 332n, 386 on Santayana, 26 Weston, Robert Dickson. See Smith, Robert , François Marie Arouet de Dickson identified, 293n Wheelock, John Hall mentioned, 292, 293n and “Apologia Pro Mente Sua,” 6 Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang and Cory, xxiv, 8, 24, 86, 88, 103, 106, The Aztec and Maya Papermakers, 198–99, 290, 291 199n his health, 138 identified, 73n and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, Jungle in the Clouds: A Naturalist’s 129–30, 158, 165, 246, 247, 251, 259 Explorations in the Republic of Honduras, identified, 7n 73 and The Last Puritan, xiii letter(s) to, 72, 144, 198, 237, 296 letter(s) to, 6, 16, 24, 35, 66, 103, 104, a naturalist, 296 106, 122, 127, 129, 138, 152, 153, 158, Santayana, sends gift to, 144–45 164, 167, 177, 180, 196, 209, 213, 231, South American Zoo, 296, 296n 241, 245, 252, 258, 272, 276, 283, 289, Sudamérica los llamaba, 237, 238n 296, 299, 303, 311, 316, 320, 322, 323, his writing, Santayana on, 144–45, 325, 327, 333, 357, 363, 371, 372, 373, 198–99, 296 385, 391 and The Letters of George Santayana (ed. Cory), 401, 403 Walker, Charles Howard and The Marriage of Venus: A Comedy, 200 identified, 111n and The Middle Span, 103, 123, 128, and The Middle Span, 111 137n, 139, 145, 196, 243 “[Ward’s]” (Santayana), 49n parcels, sends Santayana, 259, 260, 271, Warren, Bentley Wirt 276, 277, 296–97, 299, 303, 304, 311, indentified, 56n 312, 316, 319, 320, 323, 346 Santayana, school friends with, 56, 69 and Persons and Places, xiii, xvi, 8, 60–61, Washburn, Mr. (Cory’s cousin), 191, 191n, 63–64n, 66–67, 128, 138, 165 207, 209, 209n, 230, 305–6 and Philosophers at Court, 200 568 The Letters of George Santayana

Wheelock, John Hall (continued ) Wiemer, Horst and The Poet’s Testament, xix, 165n identified, 349n and The Realm of Spirit, 30 mentioned, 348, 350 and Realms of Being, 6, 7, 16, 17, 30, 32, Wild, John Daniel 139, 139n identified, 298n and Santayana’s correspondence, 401, Plato’s Theory of Man, 298, 298n, 299, 403 300, 303, 326, 327 and Santayana’s finances, 128, 133, 142, his writing, Santayana on, 327 153, 182, 201, 232, 249, 287, 290, 291, Williams, Kate and Nelly, 157, 367, 368n, 297, 303–4, 305, 320, 326, 330, 377, 378 333–34, 335, 338, 363, 371, 373–74, Williamson, Benedict 386, 392 identified, 320n and Santayana’s poetry, 165 mentioned, 319, 326, 395 and Santayana’s royalties, xxiv, 24, 91, Wilson, Edmund Jr. 103, 106, 128, 147, 231, 283, 286, 287, identified, 235n 291, 363 Persons and Places, review of, 235, 235n and Santayana’s works, 122, 146, 175, Wilson, Thomas Woodrow 384 identified, 289n Santayana’s works, and translations of, and Princeton University, 289 177, 322 Winslow, Mary Williams and Scepticism and Animal Faith, 6 Santayana, friend of, l mentioned, xvi, xxi, xxiv, xlvii, 8, 24, mentioned, xlvii, lxv 36, 51, 70, 86, 89, 116, 118, 126, 130, Winthrop, Grenville Lindall 148, 201, 204–5, 259n, 276, 298, 299, art collection, bequeaths to Harvard, 179 315, 365, 406, 411 and Harvard, 178 Wheelock, Phyllis E. De Kay (Mrs. John identified, 179n Hall Wheelock), 259, 259n, 260, 271 Santayana on, 178 Wheelwright, E. M., 217n Wolfson, Harry Austryn, lxi While Following the Plough (Collis), 291, 292n Wood, John, 245, 245n White, Dr. & Mrs. William (unidentified), The Works of George Santayana (Triton 179 Edition) Whitehead, Alfred North and Egotism in German Philosophy, 216, identified, 18n 217n and The Philosophy of Alfred North and “On the Three Philosophical Whitehead, 17, 18n Poets,” 250, 251n Whiteside, Asta Fleming and The Realm of Essence, 321 identified, 111n and The Realm of Matter, 321 letter(s) to, 110 and The Realm of Spirit, 5, 6n, 321, 387n “Miracle Letter,” 110–11, 111n and The Realm of Truth, 5, 6n, 321, 371, her writing, Santayana on, 110–11 387n Whitman, Walt[er] and Santayana’s photograh 5, 136 identified, 193n and Santayana’s potrait, 94 Santayana quotes, 192 mentioned, 6n, 37, 136, 316, 333, “Song of Myself,” 192, 193n 357–58 Whittemore, Thomas The Works of George Santayana (MIT) identified, 385n and annotations, 409, 410 mentioned, 385 as critical editions, 399, 402 Whitworth, Mrs. (unidentified), 389, 390, destroyed or unlocated letters, 403–5, 390n, 391–92 411 editorial policy, 399–400, 403–10 Index 569

and emendations, 400, 404, 407 and peace, 24 letters, chronology of, 403–4 photographers, xvi The Letters of George Santayana, Volume V, profiteering, 18 404 regulations, 251, 290 and library resources, 410 restrictions during, xi, xviii and MIT Press, 400 Romania, xii a “plain-text” edition, 405 Rome, 108, 159n, 251, 261n publication, history of, 400–402 and Russia, xii, 45, 163, 175n and QuarkXPress, 399–400 Santayana on, 43, 71–72, 73, 82n, research for, 410 84–85n, 113, 126, 127–28, 139, 163, and J. Albert Robbins, 411 195, 228, 260 and Santayana’s correspondence, and Santayana’s living arrangements, 402–3 35, 42–43, 45, 49, 50–51, 51–52, 53, and Santayana’s writing, 400–401, 407, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66, 68–69, 72, 408 92 is a scholarly edition, 401 surrender(s), xix and textual notes, 405, 407 Switzerland, xii transcription of, 399–400, 404–5, 405–6 mentioned, xvi, xviii, 10n, 13, 14, 16, 23, typesetting of, 400 24, 35–36, 37, 42–43, 44, 45, 46, 71, “unmodernized,” 399 72n, 88, 89, 90, 91, 113, 133, 146, 166, World War I, xviii, lv–lvi, 43, 73, 82n, 87, 169, 192, 215, 224, 230, 313, 314, 341, 93, 97, 113, 129, 139, 151, 239, 410 351, 353, 360, 362, 365, 376, 410 World War II Wren, Christopher Allies, xv, 159n identified, 87n America, xii, xv, xvii, 28, 39, 50, 53, 69, mentioned, 86, 138 100, 144, 163, 175n Austria, 18 Axis coalition, xii Zeltner, G. Adolph (unidentified), 233 bombs, 22, 29, 184, 186n Bulgaria, xii censors, 5, 8, 8n, 14, 28, 95, 122 and correspondence, xiv, xv, 20, 28, 46, 55, 57, 58, 63, 66–67, 68, 70–71, 73, 75n, 76n, 78n, 80n, 100, 103, 111, 112, 120, 122, 144, 148n, 167, 169–70, 172, 180, 186, 197, 198, 210, 219, 302, 310 destruction, 18 end of, xix, 10n, 151, 171n England, 175n and exchange rates, 65–66, 76, 109–10, 115 and finances, xii, xiv, 112, 114–15, 125, 126, 127, 128 and food rationing, 33 Germany, xii, xix, 18, 171n Hungary, xii Italy, xi, xii, xv, xvii, 22, 28, 35, 39, 42, 50, 53, 84n, 90, 96, 100, 148n, 172, 260, 261n Japan, xii, xix, 171n, 184, 186n military personnel, xvi, xvii, xxi