Autograph letter signed : [Verona], to Jane Simon, [1869] May 28.

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Autograph letter signed : [Verona], to Jane Simon, [1869] May 28.

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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.

1 item (3 p.) ; 20.8 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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