Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 02 Fall 1984

              Report on the 1983 Annual Meeting
The  Santayana  Society  celebrated  the  one  hundred  and  twentieth birthday of
George Santayana at its December 1983 meeting in the Sheraton-Boston hotel.
Hilary Putnam of Harvard University opened the program, with greetings
from his colleagues of Santayana's university. Next, Francis Sparshott of Victoria
College, University of Toronto read a birthday poem. These are printed below.
Then William G. Holzberger of Bucknell University discussed the history of his four-volume
edition of Santayana letters. The project was initiated by Daniel Cory, who
had previously published
selected editions of Santayana letters in 1955 and
1963. Appreciating the
care and thoroughness of
Holzberger's The Complete
Poems of George Santayana,
Cory requested Holzber-
ger's aid in collecting,
editing, and publishing an
edition of letters that
would be as complete as
possible. When Cory died
in 1972, the full task was
undertaken by Holzberger. Through extensive
research, over 2000 letters
have been located and
prepared for publication.
In addition, there are
explanatory notes for the
letters, that provide valuable source material as well
as identifications of persons and issues. The University of Illinois Press has
agreed to publish the edition of letters. Holzberger
closed his address with
quotes from numerous
letters illustrating the artistry of Santayana as a
master writer.
Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., of the University of Tampa, gave a brief response
based on Santayana's own account of three stages of his thought: (1) materialism -
no longer wavering between alternate views of the world, (2) the forms of the
good are divergent - enabling one to overcome moral and ideal provincialism, and
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old copy of The Idea of Christ in the Gospels in a Boston
second hand book store during the 1983 Meetings.