Record Number: 3565

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valorsins'. Such a scramble as I've had after them today!"

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

Probably Britain, but the author did travel to Europe on extended tours

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Ruskin

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

8 Feb 1819

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer and art critic

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Probably Britain, but the author did travel to Europe on extended tours

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Horace Benedict de Saussure

Title:

Voyages dans les Alpes

Genre:

Geography / Travel, Science, Natural history

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1865

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3565

Source:

Print

Author:

John Ruskin

Editor:

Virginia Surtees

Title:

Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton.

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

54-55

Additional Comments:

From the editor's footnote: "Voyages dans les Alpes, 1786, III, pp. 142-4, by Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740-99), the Swiss physicist who travelled widely in the Alps studying their geology and minerals. Ruskin had long admired this book, and on his fifteenth birthday had asked for it as a present." From a latter sent from Switzerland dated 3/10/1863 to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford.

Citation:

John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton., (London, 1972), p. 54-55, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3565, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None