By George Santayana, William G. Holzberger, Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., Marianne S. Wokeck
This penultimate quantity of Santayana's letters chronicles Santayana's existence in the course of a tough time—the warfare years and the instant postwar interval. the appearance of worldwide struggle II left Santayana remoted in Rome, and the problems of wartime go back and forth throughout borders pressured him to desert plans to maneuver to extra agreeable destinations in Switzerland or Spain. in the course of those years, Santayana lived in one room in a nursing domestic run by means of the "Blue Sisters" of the Little corporation of Mary in Rome, the place, in the course of the iciness months, he did a lot of his writing in mattress (wearing well-mended gloves) in an effort to remain hot. And but, regardless of wartime deprivations, disorder, and previous age (he was once seventy seven in 1941), Santayana was once remarkably efficient, finishing either his autobiography individuals and locations and the assumption of Christ within the Gospels: or God in guy, and all yet finishing Dominations and Powers. He confided to 1 correspondent that he had "never been extra at peace or extra happy."
The 8 books of The Letters of George Santayana collect over 3,000 letters, a lot of which were came upon within the fifty years on the grounds that Santayana's loss of life. Letters in booklet Seven are written to such correspondents as his buddy and protégée Daniel Cory, his monetary supervisor and inheritor George Sturgis, and the yankee poet Robert Lowell. The correspondence with Lowell—which begun while the more youthful author despatched Santayana a duplicate of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lord Weary's Castle—signals a big new friendship, which turned a resource of love and highbrow engagement in Santayana's ultimate years.
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I am grateful to the late Don Eduardo Sastre Martín, Santayana’s grandnephew, for the interviews in his home in Madrid that he gave to my colleague xxxiv Acknowledgments Professor Mills F. Edgerton Jr. and for his help in obtaining copies of letters in Spanish to his parents, José and Isabel Sastre. Thanks also to Pedro García Martín, Emilio Santos Sastre, and Ana Sastre Moyano, who provided copies of letters and postcards written to Santayana’s sister and brother-in-law and other members of the Sastre family.
Mrs. Toy, Mrs. Potter, and Mrs. Winslow fit this description. And, until her death in 1928, Santayana’s elder half sister Susan was, in complex ways, the beloved woman in his life. However, Santayana—like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche—saw women as fundamentally different from men, as is illustrated by a 17 February 1887 letter to Henry Ward Abbot: A woman, for example, is despised in so far as she is a human individual competing with others for life, especially because her methods of competing are small and mean; but she is loved and even worshiped as the complement of man, as something filling out his life without sharing his qualities.
The help and companionship she provided on the numerous and extensive travels that this work has entailed often transformed difficulty, inconvenience, and hard labor into achievement and adventure. I am grateful to her for all the effort, encouragement, and patience that she has contributed to the completion of this enterprise. Our other editorial assistant on the letters edition, Brenda Bridges, at Texas A&M, also richly deserves recognition here and the gratitude of the editors for effectively carrying out many important and demanding tasks, including researching the information for much of the footnote annotation to the letters.
