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Daniel Hudson Burnham Henry Sargent Codman Charles Eliot Richard Morris Hunt Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.John Charles Olmsted George Washington Vanderbilt

Chapter I: April 1890–August 1890

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Robert Treat Paine, April 5, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Robertson Pitcher, April 15, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Joseph Albright, April 16, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Archie Campbell Fisk, April 21, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Edmund C. Hill, April 21, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to William Crawford Barry, April 28, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to George W. Elliott, April 28, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Gall, Jr., April 29, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Oakes Angier Ames, May 1, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Joseph Albright, May 17, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to [Albert Henry Olmsted], May 19, 1890 “Plans for Small Places,” May 28, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Gall, Jr., June 11, 1890 Project of Operations for Improving the Forest of Biltmore, [June 16, 1890]Frederick Law Olmsted to Ariel Lathrop, July 7, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to the Editor of the Traveler, July 8, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John M. Wilson, July 9, 1890 Scientific Collections at Biltmore, [July 13, 1890]Frederick Law Olmsted to Amasa Leland Stanford, August 7, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., August 7, 1890

Chapter II: August 1890–December 1890

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Lyman J. Gage, August 12, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, August 12, 1890 Preliminary Instructions as to the Biltmore Herbarium, [August 12, 1890]Frederick Law Olmsted to Lyman J. Gage, August 18, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Lyman J. Gage, August 21, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Clarence Pullen, August 25, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Leopold Eidlitz, August 26, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., September 5, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, September 5, 1890 “Plan for a Small Town Place,” September 17, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, September 17, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, September 23, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frank Van Doorn, October 7, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, October 19, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, October 27, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, October 29, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Chambers, December 4, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Clarence Pullen, December 4, 1890

Chapter III: December 1890–March 1891

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles A. Roberts, December 9, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Robert Underwood Johnson, December 13, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to William H. Noble, December 16, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Elizabeth Baldwin Whitney, December 16, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to the Citizens of Marblehead, December 20, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Paul Dana, December 22, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Arnold A. Rand, December 30, 1890 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frank Baker, [after September 25, 1890]Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, January 6, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Clarence Pullen, January 7, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick John Kingsbury, January 20, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Van Brunt, January 22, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, January 26, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, January 29, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Sprague Sargent, February 7, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, February 8, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, February 9, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Paul Dana, March 12, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Gall, Jr., March 12, 1891 Memorandum as to What is to be Aimed at in the Planting of the Lagoon District of the Chicago Exposition, as Proposed March [23], 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Rudolph Ulrich, March 24, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Robert Courtney, March 30, 1891

Chapter IV: April 1891–October 1891

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Hamilton McKown Twombly, April 20, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Gall, Jr., May 4, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, May 14, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, June 17, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Van Brunt, June 24, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., June 30, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Murray Forbes, July 2, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, July 6, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to William James, July 8, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to William Crawford Barry, August 13, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to George William Curtis, August 22, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas L. Livermore, August 25, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas H. Sherley, August 26, 1891 Annotations on Architectural Fitness,[August 27, 1891]Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, September 8, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Rudolph Ulrich, September 21, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, October 1, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, October [4 or 11], 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Kate Olivia Sessions, October 22, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to William A. Moore, October 26, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Amasa Leland Stanford, October 28, 1891

Chapter V: November 1891–April 1892

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, November 4, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas H. Sherley, November 7, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Peter Q. White, November 10, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Francis G. Newlands, November 16, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Francis G. Newlands, November 16, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, November 27, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, December 23, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, December 28, 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, December 30, 1891 D.C. Streets Memorandum, December 30, 1891 “George W. Vanderbilt’s Nursery,” December 1891 Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas L. Livermore, [1891]Frederick Law Olmsted to Miles Greenwood Nixon, January 21, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Letitia Neill Brace, January 22, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles McNamee, January 27, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, January 30, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Édouard André, February 1, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to William Barnes Platt, February 1, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas L. Livermore, February 4, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Francis Amasa Walker, February 5, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, February 6, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, February 6, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Jay Chapman, March 24, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Rudolph Ulrich, March 31, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to J. Ridgway Tiers, April 1, 1892

Chapter VI: April 1892–August 1892

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, April 20, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, April 20, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, April 21, 1892 Report to Partners on Exposition Universelle, [April 25–29, 1892]Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman and John Charles Olmsted, April 29, 1892 Memorandum on Exposition Universelle and the Chateaux Loire, May 1, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Mary Perkins Olmsted, May 3, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, May 15, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, May 25, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, June 16, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, June 27, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Henry Sargent Codman, July [9–11], 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Henry Sargent Codman, July 17, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Sargent Codman, July 30, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, August 25, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to William Robinson, [after August 26, 1892]

Chapter VII: September 1892–May 1893

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to William Hammond Hall, September 14, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, October 3, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, October 7, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to William A. Stiles, October 7, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, October 11, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, November 7, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, November 27, 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted to Robert Radcliffe Stevens, January 7, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Card Graves, February 7, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, February 17, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, March 1, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Rudolph Ulrich, March 11, 1893 Launching the Great Fair: Letters to John Charles Olmsted, April 13–May 10, 1893 Untitled Memorandum about the plan for the World’s Columbian Exposition, April 17, 1893

Chapter VIII: May 1893–November 1893

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, May 22, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to William R. Ware, May 31, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to William Marriott Canby, June 1, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, June 11, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Horace William Shaler Cleveland, June 13, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, June 17, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, [June 18, 1893]Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, June 20, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Timothy Dwight, July 3, 1893 “A Report Upon the Landscape Architecture of the Columbian Exposition to the American Institute of Architects,” [August 2, 1893]Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick John Kingsbury, September 6, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles McNamee, September 20, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, September 23, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel H. Burnham, October 2, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, November 1, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to William A. Stiles, November 4, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, November 10, 1893

Chapter IX: December 1893–May 1894

Editorial Introduction Biltmore Village Memorandum, [December 9, 1893]Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, December 30, 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, January 9, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, January 25, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, January 25, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Édouard André, February 15, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Edmund March Wheelwright, February 17, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, February 19, [1894]Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, March 11, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, March 13, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Calvert Vaux, March 31, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Paul Kendricken, April 2, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles McNamee, April 17, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to the President of the South Park Commission of the City of Chicago, April 18, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Joseph Donnersberger, April 20, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Robert Lilley, May 1, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Joseph Donnersberger, May 7, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to James W. Ellsworth, May 8, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Ives Cobb, May 12, 1894

Chapter X: June 1894–November 1894

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, [June 3], 1894 Notes and Memoranda on Biltmore, June 10, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Gall, Jr., July 7, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., August 1–7, [1894]Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, August 7, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Calvert Vaux, [late August 1894]Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles F. Sprague, August 20, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Harold Carter Brown, September 11, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward D. Bolton, September 12, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Albert Henry Olmsted, September 21, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Thomas H. Sherley, September 24, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel L. Beiler, September 28, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to John J. Glessner, October 2, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to George Washington Vanderbilt, October 4, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to William A. Stiles, [October 5], 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to John George Jack, October 10, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot, November 5, 1894

Chapter XI: December 1894–May 1895

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles McNamee, December 4, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles De Forest Burns, December 12, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Jabez Baxter Upham, December 19, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles McNamee, December 21, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., December 23, 1894 Biltmore Village Memorandum as to Planting in the Winter and Spring of 1895, December 28, 1894 Frederick Law Olmsted to George E. Waring, Jr., January 1, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Gifford Pinchot, January 9, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Forrester Andrew, January 28, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Francis Amasa Walker, February 5, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., February 11, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., February 15, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Forrester Andrew, February 25, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to William A. Stiles, March 10, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, April 17, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot, April 29, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot, May 5, 1895

Chapter XII: May 1895–December 1895

Editorial Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, May 10, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot, May 19, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, May 25, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frank Squier, June 26, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Chauncey Delos Beadle, July 27, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to James Gall, Jr., July 29, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., July 29, 1895 Memorandum for Sargent Murphey, August 3, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Albert Henry Olmsted, August 5, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, September 19, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot, September 26, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., October 5, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., November 7, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., December 5, [1895]Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., December 10, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, December 12, 1895 Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., [1895]

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