ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people have contributed their time, effort and knowledge to the preparation of this volume. The editors owe a special debt of thanks to three people: Terry Niles Smith, who has generously permitted us to publish letters in her possession from Olmsted to her grandmother Bertha Olmsted, and has also given us permission to publish the portraits of her great-grandparents John Olmsted and Mary Bull Olmsted; Phillip Rutherford, who has been most generous in permitting us to publish letters in his possession from Olmsted to Samuel Cabot, Jr., and to include in the editors’ notes excerpts from other letters in his holdings of Cabot’s correspondence; and Jane Turner Censer, who provided much valuable assistance to the editors during the year she spent with the project on a National Historical Publications and Records Commission fellowship in editing. She reviewed the final form of the annotations prior to copy-editing, identified several of Olmsted’s previously unknown Southern hosts and drew up the annotated itineraries of Olmsted’s Southern travels that appear as Appendix II of this volume.

The editors appreciate the assistance of Laura Wood Roper, who provided access to material in her research files. They are grateful to the late Katherine Talbot, who gave permission to publish the portraits of Richard J. Arnold and Louisa Gindrat Arnold. She also made available an invaluable source on Olmsted’s visit to the Arnolds—a copy of Seaboard Slave States annotated by Mary Cornelia Arnold Talbot, Richard J. Arnold’s daughter. We wish to thank Thomas C. Clay for use of his picture of Richmond-on-Ogeechee, the plantation of his great-grandaunt Eliza Caroline Clay. We appreciate Paula Ingenhuett’s willingness for us to publish her lithographs of Ernst Kapp’s home and the surrounding countryside in Sisterdale, Texas. Susan G. Pearl helped us find illustrations of Charles Benedict Calvert’s farm, Riversdale. Mrs. Howard J. Morrison, Shelby Myrick, Jr., and J. L. Sibley Jennings III were of great [xx] assistance to the editors in their search for information on the estates that Olmsted saw in the Savannah region. For the preparation of the maps in this volume the editors are most fortunate to have had the continued services of Stephen Kraft, who drew the maps and other illustrations for volume I of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Of the many persons who worked with the editors in the long process of transcribing, annotating and checking and rechecking the texts and annotation, the editors wish especially to thank Pamela Hoes Cohen and Ray E. Wilson. Kenneth T. Stringer, Jr., solved many problems of annotation, while Leslie Anne Greene checked the accuracy and form of citations prior to submission of the manuscript to the advisory board of the Papers. The editors also benefited from the assistance of Kathleen Dalton, John Vaughan, Melissa Kirkpatrick and Hank Clark. In the process of transcribing and checking texts, the editors relied on the skills of Martha Murphy, Barbara Lautman, Gail Nolting, Gary Weaver and Rogers Spottswood. Sharon Lew helped proofread galleys and pages and construct the index. For research on Olmsted’s relations with the antislavery Germans in the San Antonio area, the editors drew on the research and translating abilities of Mary M. El-Beheri and her students Dawn Davis, Ronald Schneider and Eric Vormelker.

Student interns who provided valuable assistance were Matthew Hamilton, who compared the texts of Olmsted’s newspaper letters on the South with the volumes Olmsted later published; Judy Ingram and Sophie Lynn, who established a preliminary itinerary of Olmsted’s travels; and Ed Cloos, who undertook the preliminary annotation of Olmsted’s introduction and supplement to The Englishman in Kansas.

We have received generous aid and comments from the Olmsted Papers’ Advisory Board and from other historians, including Alice Crozier, John W. Lozier, Larry Jochims, Ernest Isaacs and Richard H. Abbott. In addition, we owe a special debt of gratitude to the staff of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, which has assisted us so assiduously and for so long. We wish also to thank the staffs of the libraries of Boston University, Brown University, Harvard University, the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and Smith College for their help in providing information and materials used in the preparation of this volume.

We wish also to express our great appreciation to the individuals and institutions that have sponsored our efforts and have provided the funds for our enterprise. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided major funding for the period 1977–80, during which most of the work on this volume was done. The Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Capitol Historical Society provided substantial grants for work on the volume, and these grants were matched by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Olmsted Papers project also received generous help in the form of similar matching grants from the Gaylord Donnelley Foundation, the New York Times Foundation, the Continental Trust Company of Illinois, and from Clarence Heller and [xxi] Mrs. Thomas R. Coyne. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided funds for the final stages of preparation of the volume. In 1977 the National Historical Publications and Records Commission awarded the editors a substantial grant for research on the volume and in addition has provided The Johns Hopkins University Press with a subvention to help meet the costs of publication.

In the preparation of this volume, Charles McLaughlin did the original letter-search and preliminary annotation of a number of the documents. Charles Beveridge supervised the day-to-day work on the volume and was primarily responsible for the annotation of documents concerning Olmsted and the South. David Schuyler assumed primary responsibility for the annotation of documents relating to Olmsted’s literary and publishing career.