ABSTRACT
Published 1864 Written 6–8 Sept. 1861, visiting ‘a valley in the Pyrenees, where I had been with Arthur Hallam’ (T.) in 1830. Hallam wrote to T.’s brother Charles, 12 Sept. 1830: ‘we remained at Cauterets, and recruited our strength with precipitous defiles, jagged mountain tops, forests of solemn pine, travelled by dewy clouds, and encircling lawns of the greenest freshness, waters, in all shapes, and all powers, from the clear runnel bubbling down over our mountain paths at intervals, to the blue little lake whose deep, cold waters are fed eternally from neighbouring glaciers, and the impetuous cataract, fraying its way over black, beetling rocks’ (AHH, p. 375). Also Hallam’s letter to T.’s sister Emily, from Salzburg, 24 Aug. 1833: ‘waters flashing into white foam along the rocky channel… & seeming, as I stopped to listen, like the voices of the eternal hills’ (AHH, p. 773).
