RECENTLY DISCOVERED LETTERS OF GEORGE SANTAYANA

The concerted efforts of three respected Santayana scholars havecoalesced in this book that includes the transcription of thephilosopher's letters to Charles A. Loeser and to Albert vonWestenholz. Daniel Pinkas discovered and analyzed them only recentlyand they are published here for the first time, in English andSpanish, translated by Daniel Moreno and presented by José Beltrán.The volume comprises the letters Santayana sent to his two friendsover five long decades, spanning the nineteenth and twentieth century. This collection of epistolary writings constitutes a surprisingmosaic-like jewel made up of a constellation of life episodes thatpulsate in each and every letter and resonate suggestively in theecho-chamber of Santayana's body of work. Pictures and books, personsand places, landscapes and voyages. So many comings and goings, somany departures and arrivals, crossing countries on trains and oceanson ships, staying in hotels and university residences, stopping off at memorable cafés, giving lectures here and there, reading and writingincessantly. By partaking, under the philosopher's guidance, in theexperience these pages offer, we will somehow make our own Santayana's words at the end of these letters: 'I saw things I shall neverforget'.