 1912–1952. As Santayana sailed for Europe, his mother died, apparently of Alzheimer’s disease. Always attentive to his family, Santayana visited her weekly, then daily, during his last years at Harvard. Knowing his mother’s death was imminent, he arranged for Josephine, his half sister, to live in Spain with Susana, who previously had married a well-to-do Ávilan. An inheritance of $10,000 from his mother, coupled with his steady income from publications and his early planning, made retirement easier. He arranged for his half brother, Robert, to manage his finances with the agreement that upon Santayana’s death, Robert or his heirs would receive the bulk of Santayana’s estate. Hence, in January 1912, at age forty-eight, Santayana was free from the constraints of university regimen and expectations and, more importantly, free to write, to travel, and to choose his residence and country.