BIB_ID
311834
Accession number
MA 7788.28
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1869] May 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters primarily from John Ruskin and Joan Severn to Dr. and Mrs. Simon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to 1869 and indicating place of writing to be Verona.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to 1869 and indicating place of writing to be Verona.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Saying he was very angry "for your thinking I didn't know what could or couldn't be done for the Alps. It is not to arrest their fall. It is to arrest the rainfall on their sides--that I mean to work;" continuing to describe, at length and in detail, his plans for creating trenches for the water to flow into reservoirs in order to "make the lost valleys of the Alps one Paradise of safe plenty;" adding that he is doing good work and getting stronger.
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