Main Series | Volume 7: Parks, Politics, and Patronage | Introductory Material and Text
IntroductionEditorial PolicyShort Titles Used in CitationsChapter I: January 1874-August 1874[Editorial Introduction]Country Living, Nation, 22 January 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Justin Smith Morrill, 22 January 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Salem H. Wales, 4 March 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to William Hammond Hall, 23 March 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to William Hammond Hall, 28 March 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Seymour Ainsworth, Hiram Tompkins, and John L. Perry, 21 April 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, 14 May 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Justin Smith Morrill and James Henry Platt, Jr., 9 June 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Sprague Sargent, 8 July 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Justin Smith Morrill, 16 August 1874 Chapter II: August 1874–January 1875[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 27 August 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Albert Gallatin Browne, 12 November 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to the Commissioners of Mount-Royal Park, 21 November 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Whitelaw Reid, 26 November 1874“The National Capitol,” 5 December 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to the Buffalo Park Commission, 15 December 1874Frederick Law Olmsted to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, 15 January 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 15 January 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick William Poppey, 21 January 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, c. January – February 1875 Chapter III: February 1875–February 1876[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, 1 March 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas Pynchon, c. 10 March 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to William L. Fischer, 14 March 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to William Robinson, c. 20–30 March 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., 13 May 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 18 May 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, 1 June 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to John A. Partridge, 9 September 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to William Hammond Hall, 13 September 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Walter L. Sessions, 9 October 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 11 October 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas Hill, 3 November 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to George Jones, 19 November 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 3 December 1875Frederick Law Olmsted to Dennis Bowen, 1 January 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 1 February 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to J. H. Miller, 28 February 1876 Chapter IV: April 1876–December 1876[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to William Edward Dorsheimer, 2 April 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 2 April 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 4 April 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Henry Dalton, 8 April 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 22 April 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 6 June 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 7 June 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 26 July 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to William Runyon Martin, 9 August 1876“Mr. Olmsted on Landscape Gardening,” 12 August 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to William McMillan, 10 September 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Dennis Bowen, 10 September 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to William McMillan, 11 September 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 28 September 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., 1 October 1876“Preliminary Report of the Landscape Architect and the Civil and Topographical Engineer …,” 15 November 1876“Report of the Landscape Architect and the Civil and Topographical Engineer …,” 21 November 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas M. Lanahan, 23 December 1876Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 27 December 1876 Chapter V: January 1877–October 1877[Editorial Introduction]Memorandum on New York Capitol Patronage, 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 February 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Whitelaw Reid, 2 March 1877New York State Capitol Testimony, 6 March 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to William McMillan, 16 March 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to William Runyon Martin, 20 March 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 26 March 1877“To the Public,” 26 March 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to the Mount Royal Park Commission, 28 April 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to William Runyon Martin, 16 May 1877“The Central Park,” 19 May 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Horatio Admiral Nelson, 24 July 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Mary Perkins Olmsted, 24 July 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Mary Perkins Olmsted, 25 July 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to Mary Perkins Olmsted, 18 August 1877Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, 7 October 1877 Chapter VI: October 1877–July 1878Chapter VII: January 1879–October 1879[Editorial Introduction]Review of New York City Park Department Polices in 1878, 8 January 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Sprague Sargent, 27 January 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Sprague Sargent, 29 January 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Clark, 23 May 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Édouard François André, 6 June 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Clark, 21 June 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Y. Attrill and Benjamin E. Smith, 30 July 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Y. Attrill, 23 September 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to James Terry Gardner, 2 October 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to James Terry Gardner, 3 October 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 10 October 1879 Chapter VIII: December 1879–May 1880[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Henry Dalton, 9 December 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Tiffany & Company, 9 December 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Whitney Bellows, 22 December 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Whitney Bellows, 24 December 1879“The Future of New York,” New-York Daily Tribune, 28 December 1879Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 22 January 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Joseph Phineas Davis, 24 January 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Henry Dalton, 24 January 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Parks of the City of Boston, 26 January 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Barthold S. Schlesinger, 9 February 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 February 1880“Notes by Mr. Olmsted,” in Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls for the Year 1879, c. 22 March 1880“Improvement of the Back-Bay, Boston,” The American Architect and Building News, 3 April 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Henry Dalton, 5 May 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 7 May 1880 Chapter IX: May 1880—December 1880[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Phillips, 11 May 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to the Earl of Derby, 11 June 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas Wisedell, 13 June 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to William Oliver Buchanan, 15 June 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Phillips, 23 August 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Clark, c. August–September 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Sylvester Baxter, 9 November 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Clark, 18 November 1880Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Henry Dalton, 29 November 1880“Suggestions for the Improvement of Muddy River,” December 1880 Chapter X: February 1881-December 1881[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Horace William Shaler Cleveland, 9 February 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Paul Cornell, 12 April 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to C. H. Dalton, “Mr. Olmsted’s Report,” 17 May 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 30 May 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Barthold S. Schlesinger, 17 June 1881“Influence,” c. July 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Phillips, 27 September 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Cornelius Rea Agnew, c. June–October 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Clark, 1 October 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 19 October 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 2 November 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 29 November 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Henry Dalton, 29 December 1881Frederick Law Olmsted to John Sterling, 30 December 1881 Chapter XI: January 1882-March 1882