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IntroductionEditorial PolicyShort Titles Used in CitationsBiographical DirectoryChapter I: Superintendent of Central Park, 1857–1858
[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to the President of the Commissioners of the Central Park, 12 August 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Asa Gray, 20 August 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to John Hull Olmsted, 11 September 1857“Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man”Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 6 October 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to Asa Gray, 8 October 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 9 October 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 16 October 1857Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 14 January 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 2 February 1858
Chapter II: The Greensward Plan, 1858
[Editorial Introduction]“Description of a Plan for the Improvement of the Central Park ‘Greensward’,” 31 March 1858
Chapter III: Architect-in-Chief of Central Park, 1858–1859
[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Grant White, 16 April 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 20 May 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 31 May 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Grant White, 3 June 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Grant White, 16 June 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to Parke Godwin, 1 August 1858Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 9 September 1858“Description of the Central Park,” January 1859“Rules and Conditions of Service of the Central Park Keepers,” 12 March 1859Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 5 July 1859Frederick Law Olmsted to John F. Butterworth, 12 September 1859Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 23 September 1859Frederick Law Olmsted to Sir William Hooker, c. 29 November 1859Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 28 December 1859
Chapter IV: The Park and the City, 1860
[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 13 January 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 12 March 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Fernando Wood, 2 April 1860Circular Proposing the Erection in Central Park of a Memorial to Andrew Jackson Downing, 5 April 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew H. Green, 29 April 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Dear Sir, 4 June 1860“Instructions to All Engaged in Moving or Planting Trees or Shrubs,” 27 June 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 22 July 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry H. Elliott, 27 August 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to James T. Fields, 21 October 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 21 October 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to J. P. Walker, 1 November 1860Regulations for the Use of the Central Park, 3 November 1860Notice Posted in Keepers' Room, Central Park, 10 November 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, c. 13 November 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew H. Green, 15 November 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew H. Green, 16 November 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Loring Brace, 8 December 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas C. Fields, 12 December 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard M. Blatchford, 17 December 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew H. Green, 21 December 1860Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew H. Green, 28 December 1860
Chapter V: Politics and the Park, 1861
[Editorial Introduction]“Rights of Men Employed”Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 22 January 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to John Bigelow, 9 February 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Grant White, 9 March 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 22 March 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 25 March 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 28 March 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, April 1861Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, 17 April 1861
Chapter VI: Parks at Home and Abroad, 1861
[Editorial Introduction]“Park,” from The New American Cyclopaedia, vol. 12
 
 
 

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