SHORT TITLES USED IN CITATIONS

1. Correspondents’ Names

CLB	Charles Loring Brace
FLO	Frederick Law Olmsted
FJK	Frederick John Kingsbury
JHO	John Hull Olmsted
JO	John Olmsted

2. Standard References

BDAC	Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1971
DAB	Dictionary of American Biography
DNB	Dictionary of National Biography
EB	Encylopaedia Britannica, 14th ed.
NCAB	National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
NYDT	New-York Daily Times
OED	Oxford English Dictionary

3. Books by Frederick Law Olmsted

Back Country (BC in citations): A Journey in the Back Country . . . (New York, 1860).
Cotton Kingdom (CK in citations): The Cotton Kingdom; A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author. Edited, with an introduction, by Arthur M. Schlesinger (New York, 1953).
Journey Through Texas (JT in citations): A Journey Through Texas; Or, A [46] Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier . . . (New York and London, 1857).
Seaboard Slave States (SSS in citations): A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy . . . (New York and London, 1856).
Seaboard Slave States (1904 ed.): A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853–1854, With Remarks on Their Economy, by Frederick Law Olmsted, [Originally Issued in 1856] With a Biographical Sketch by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and With an Introduction by William P. Trent. . ., 2 vols. (New York and London, 1904).
Walks and Talks: Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, 2 vols. in 1 (New York, 1852).

4. Other Published Works

Appleton’s Cyc. Am. Biog.: Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, ed. James G. Wilson and John Fiske (New York, 1887–89).
Dictionary of Artists in America: New-York Historical Society, Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564–1860, by George C. Groce and David H. Wallace (New Haven and London, 1957).
Eleventh Reunion: The Eleventh Reunion of the Olmsted Family Held at Ridgefield, Connecticut, September 17, 1932 (privately printed, n.d.). Copy in possession of Charles C. McLaughlin.
Forty Years: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodora Kimball, eds., Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822–1903 (Forty Years of Landscape Architecture), 2 vols. (New York, 1922–28).
Life of Brace: Charles Loring Brace, The Life of Charles Loring Brace, Chiefly Told in His Own Letters, ed. Emma Brace (New York, 1894).
Notable American Women: Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Directory, ed. Edward T. James, 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1971).
Olmsted Genealogy: Henry K. Olmsted and George K. Ward, comps., Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries 1632–1912 (New York. 1912).
Papers of FLO: The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, ed. Charles C. McLaughlin et al. (Baltimore. 1977–).
Putnam’s Monthly: Putnam’s Magazine. Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National Interests. In 1853–57 was titled Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art.
Schaeffer Encyc.: The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Based on the Third Edition of the Realencyclopädie Founded by J. J. Herzog, and Edited by Albert Hauck, . . . Prepared by More [47]Than Six Hundred Scholars and Specialists Under the Supervision of Samuel Macauley Jackson . . . (Editor-in-Chief) With the Assistance of Charles Cole-brook Sherman and George William Gilmore . . . (Associate Editors) and [Others], 13 vols. (New York, [1908-c. 1914]).
[See Spear —]: Designates the number assigned to a city directory in the microfiche edition of Dorothea N. Spear’s Bibliography of American Directories through 1860 (Worcester, Mass., 1961).
Yale Obit. Rec.: Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University (New Haven, [1860– ]).

5. Unpublished Sources

Adolf Douai, “Autobiography”: “Autobiography of Dr. Adolf Douai. Revolutionary of 1848, Texas Pioneer, Introducer of the Kindergarten, Educator, Author, Editor 1819–1888. Translated from the German by Richard H. Douai Boerker his grandson.” Typescript, deposited in the Texas State Library, Austin, Texas. Portions of the “Autobiography” were published in the original German in Die Neue Welt, nos. 45–58 (Leipzig, 1878), and in Wochenblatt der New Yorker Volkszeitung II, no. 4 (Jan. 28, 1888).
JO Journal: A manuscript journal and domestic account book kept by John Olmsted from 1836 to 1873 and continued until 1888 by his widow Mary Ann Bull Olmsted. Three volumes, in the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.