Main Series | Volume 2: Slavery and the South | Introductory Material and Text
IntroductionEditorial PolicyShort Titles Used in CitationsBiographical DirectoryChapter I: The Journey through the Seaboard Slave States: The Upper South, 1852–1853[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Kingsbury, 17 October 1852“The South” Number 1, New-York Daily Times, 16 February 1853Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Loring Brace, 22 December 1852“The South” Number 2, New-York Daily Times, 19 February 1853“The South” Number 7, New-York Daily Times, 17 March 1853Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 10 January 1853“The South” Number 8, New-York Daily Times, 30 March 1853“The South” Number 9, New-York Daily Times, 5 April 1853“The South” Number 10, New-York Daily Times, 8 April 1853“The South” Number 11, New-York Daily Times, 13 April 1853“The South” Number 12, New-York Daily Times, 20 April 1853“The South” Number 14, New-York Daily Times, 28 April 1853“The South” Number 19, New-York Daily Times, 24 May 1853 Chapter II: The Journey through the Seaboard Slave States: The Lower South, 1853[Editorial Introduction]“The South” Number 24, New-York Daily Times, 14 June 1853“The South” Number 26, New-York Daily Times, 21 June 1853“The South” Number 27, New-York Daily Times, 30 June 1853“The South” Number 28, New-York Daily Times, 8 July 1853“The South” Number 33, New-York Daily Times, 13 August 1853“The South” Number 34, New-York Daily Times, 19 August 1853Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Loring Brace, 8 February 1853“The South” Number 35, New-York Daily Times, 26 August 1853Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Loring Brace, 23 February 1853Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Kingsbury, 26 February 1853“The South” Number 44, New-York Daily Times, 21 November 1853“The South” Number 45, New-York Daily Times, 26 November 1853 Chapter III: First Conclusions: 1853–1854Chapter IV: The Journey through Texas and the Back Country: 1854[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Anne Charlotte Lynch, 12 March 1854“A Tour in the Southwest” Number 8, New-York Daily Times, 24 April 1854“A Tour in the Southwest” (Unnumbered), New-York Daily Times, 13 May 1854“A Tour in the Southwest” Number 10, New-York Daily Times, 18 May 1854“From the Southwest,” New-York Daily Times, 27 May 1854“A Tour in the Southwest” Number 12, New-York Daily Times, 3 June 1854“The Southerners at Home” Number 1, New York Daily Tribune, 3 June 1857Appeal for Funds for the San Antonio Zeitung, c. October 1854“A Few Dollars Wanted to Help the Cause of Future Freedom in Texas,” c. October 1854 Chapter V: The Literary Republic: 1854–1855[Editorial Introduction]“Lessons concerning Means of Security on Ocean Steamers,” New-York Daily Times, 18 October 1854Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 7 November 1854Frederick Law Olmsted to Bertha Olmsted and Sophia Stevens Hitchcock, Early 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 13 March 1855“Plan of Weekly Magazine”, [Spring 1855]Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 28 May 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to Parke Godwin, 12 July 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to Arthur T. Edwards, 7 August 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 23 August 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to Parke Godwin, September 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to James B. Abbott, 17 September 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to James B. Abbott, 4 October 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to James B. Abbott, 7 October 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 23 October 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to Parke Godwin, c. October 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 8 November 1855Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 9 December 1855 Chapter VI: European Interlude: 1856Chapter VII: Free-Soil Crusade: 1857[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 10 January 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 30 January 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 19 February 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 20 February 1857American Editor's Introduction to The Englishman in Kansas by T. H. Gladstone [1857]Supplement by the American Editor to The Englishman in Kansas, 13 April 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 29 June 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 30 June 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 4 July 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to the Secretaries of the Cotton Supply Associations of Manchester and Liverpool, 6 July 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 26 July 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 18 August 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 14 September 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 22 October 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., 27 October 1857