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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.
August 27, 1878.
My dear Sir,—I have only this morning taken up the August number of the Alpine, and should have before thanked you for the candid and exhaustive history of the Buet, and its just notices of dear old Saussure and Bourrit.
No less for the courteous paper on Alpine art, the most sensible I have ever seen.
I should like to send you a few words on the matter for your October number, if September 12 will be in time for it, of which the gist will be an affirmative answer to your question whether I have ceased to hope for Alpine art, and a courteous reproach to the writer of the article for supposing snow paintable.
I have told my publisher to send you the back numbers of Deucalion, and to continue it for the Club library. I hope that some day the members of the Club may desire to gather together their knowledge of glaciers, and make a wholesome end of all glacier theories, by due acknowledgment of James Forbes's conclusive ascertainment of glacier facts.
They owe this duty to science, and should, it seems to me, take honourable pride in fulfilling it. Always believe me, my dear Sir,
Your faithful servant,
J. Ruskin.
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