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George Santayana Collection, Accession 6947-e, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 3 Dec 1965
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[Recalls that the sonnet he inquires about was inspired in 1887 by a visit to the library at Merton in Oxford ; states that he has since "become more scholastic"; writes that it is pleasant to revisit Harvard in spirit.]