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GEORGE SANTAYANA

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
GEORGE SANTAYANA
(1863-1952) Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist; best known for his oft-quoted "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo., New York, Feb. 2, 1907, on letterhead of The Buckingham hotel to Miss Levy, declining an invitation to speak, adding: "...These trips to New York have proved very fatiguing, and I am not myself; never shall I undertake such a peregrination again. Of course, not being able to address your club, it would be an imposition to come to dinner and I must beg you to excuse me from both engagements...I owe you most humble apologies...I really had no idea what was being done, and it all seems to have been transacted by magic...". At the time, Santayana was a professor at Harvard. Boldly penned and very good.

Estimate: $100 - 150.

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