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To Charles Eliot Norton
| My Dear Norton, | 110 Broadway June 20th 1867 |
I enclose a tracing which will give you somewhat more definitely the suggestions which I tried to offer, in regard to possible street improvements at Cambridge, when I last saw you.
Allow me to remind you that you have never written the article for the Nation presenting the advantages & the propriety of a long plan for the construction of monumental buildings. I don’t want to urge you by any means but I think something ought to be said to strengthen the hands of the better sort in Committees before long for many projects are now about being abandoned or brought to the contract period—contracts for shingling monuments! I am reminded of it by being called to advise about a site for a monument of Lincoln by Brown in Brooklyn. We propose the market-place facing a rostrum for political speakers, rather than a garden or burying ground.
The increase of advertisements is positively making Godkin look younger and lustier.
Fred. Law Olmsted.