Autograph letter signed with initials : Milan, to John Simon, 1869 May 7.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : Milan, to John Simon, 1869 May 7.

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Discussing the devastation in the Valais and Val d'Ossola last autumn; saying that "ten years will not restore the vallies to their former state;" discussing, at length and in great detail, his plan, "with the help of a "good engineer", to "secure a given mountain side in the course of a year, as to tender all future aid to flood by its torrents impossible;" adding that if successful he would "secure their slopes gradually until instead of the drainage of a whole mountain side gathered into one rotten gulph of ravine in a thunderous deluge, I had mere threads of soft stream led into reservoirs at different heights--and a months verdure at my command in future drought;" saying that he knows he could do it and it would "show how the whole valley of the Rhone might be made a perpetual garden--with no more fear of flood;"adding in a postscript, "I don't mean I would give up my art, but make this my out of door work henceforward.

1 item (4 p.) ; 18.0 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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