SHORT TITLES USED IN CITATIONS

1. Correspondents’ Names

BCCP	Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
CLB	Charles Loring Brace
AHG	Andrew Haswell Green
FJK	Frederick John Kingsbury
FLO	Frederick Law Olmsted
JHO	John Hull Olmsted
JO	John Olmsted
MPO	Mary Perkins Olmsted
CV	Calvert Vaux

2. Standard References

DAB	Dictionary of American Biography
DNB	Dictionary of National Biography
EB	Encyclopaedia Britannica
NCAB	National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
NYDT	New-York Daily Times
OED	Oxford English Dictionary

3. 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).
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BCCP, ____ Annual Report [18—]: New York City, Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, Annual Report (New York, 1858–70).
BCCP, Minutes: New York City, Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, Minutes of Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (New York, 1858–69).
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).
Iconography of Manhattan: I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498–1909, 6 vols. (New York, 1915–28).
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–).
[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).
Valentine’s Manual: New York City, Common Council, Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (New York, 1841/42–1870).
Yale Obit. Rec.: Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University (New Haven, [1860–]).

4. Unpublished Sources

FJK Sketch of FLO: A series of complete and excerpted letters from Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick John Kingsbury, with accompanying reminiscences and editorial comment by Kingsbury, prepared and sent by Kingsbury to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., in 1903, after Olmsted’s death. Approximately sixty-five pages long, in the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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.