Record Number: 3565
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
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Voyages dans les Alpes
Genre:Geography / Travel, Science, Natural history
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1865
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:3565
Source: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: 17 April 2025
Additional Comments:
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