Box 17

Scope and Contents

Letters, postcards, notes, photos, and newspaper clippings removed from books that are a part of the library of Charles Augustus Strong once at the Villa Le Balze, now at the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. These books likely belonged to George Santayana, as the letters and postcards to him seem to indicate. Titles and call numbers of the associated books in the rare books repository are identified in the folder.

Scope and Contents

Letters and postcards, mostly from George Santayana to Charles Strong, including cards from F.C.S. Schiller, G.E. Moore, and Cecil Pinsent, an architect of the Villa Le Balze.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Mixed material related to the philosopher and poet George Santayana including 8 volumes of his books, some annotated by him, and all altered by the cutting and removal of passages and sections for editing into a new collection of essays, along with 5 "volumes" of assembled pages comprising early stage dummy books for five parts of "Little Essays on Religion". Other material includes an issue of the Harvard Monthly, correspondence, lecture notes on ancient and modern philosophers, and similar...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Mixed material related to the philosopher and poet George Santayana including 8 volumes of his books, some annotated by him, and all altered by the cutting and removal of passages and sections for editing into a new collection of essays, along with 5 "volumes" of assembled pages comprising early stage dummy books for five parts of "Little Essays on Religion". Other material includes an issue of the Harvard Monthly, correspondence, lecture notes on ancient and modern philosophers, and similar...

Scope and Contents

The covers of this issue containing gathered pages from various issues of Harvard Monthly. Mostly gathering sonnets and other poems and articles by George Santayana, one of the editors.

Scope and Contents

Five separate "dummy" books made up of written drafts, clippings and pages removed from Santayana's earlier works for republication as "Little Essays" in 1921, each representing on of the five parts of the book: I. On Human Nature; II. On Religion; III. On Art & Poetry; IV. On Poets and Philosophers; and V. On Materialism and Morals. The books of Santayana from which material was removed, presumably to construct these, are housed in box 18.