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In the midst of my research, I came across the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America, hosted on the Frick Collection website. One of the entries indicated that Houghton Library at Harvard had received in 2012 a box of documents labelled «Letters from William James and George Santayana to Charles Alexander Loeser, 1886-1912 and undated.» The entry also mentioned that it was a donation in memory of Charles A. Loeser made by his granddaughter, Philippa Calnan. Given the importance Santayana granted to his friendship with Loeser in his autobiography and the absence of any letters to this recipient in the critical edition of the Santayana’s letters, I knew right away that I had chanced upon something interesting. The librarian I contacted at Houghton Library informed me that the documents had not yet been scanned, but that they could do so quickly. In September 2018, by an amusing coincidence, I was at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence where I had just visited the rooms dedicated to the Loeser bequest, when I received the compressed files of Santayana’s letters to Loeser.