Main Series | Volume 6: The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company | Introductory Material and Text
IntroductionEditorial PolicyShort Titles Used in CitationsBiographical DirectoryChapter I: December 1865–April 1866Chapter II: July 1866–January 1867[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 3 July 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Miner Gallaudet, 14 July 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 July 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Grant White, 23 July 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Howard Potter, 13 August 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 26 August 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 12 September 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 19 September 1866Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 8 October 1866“A Few Things to Be Thought of before Proceeding to Plan Buildings for the National Agricultural Colleges,” December 1866“Report of the Landscape Architects & Superintendents,” 1 January 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 11 January 1867“Architect’s Report to the Board of Trustees,” 22 January 1867 Chapter III: January 1867–January 1868[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to the President of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Bright, 1 February 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Howard Potter, 7 February 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 13 June 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 20 June 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 27 June 1867“Report Accompanying a Design for Washington Park,” 9 September 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 10 September 1867“Architect’s Report to the Board of Commissioners,” 5 October 1867“Last General Report of the Southern Famine Relief Commission,” 8 November 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to the Chairman of the Committee on Plans of the Park Commission of Philadelphia, 4 December 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 13 December 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 14 December 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 16 December 1867Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 22 January 1868 Chapter IV: February 1868–December 1869[Editorial Introduction]Memorandum Accompanying Drawing for C. E. Norton, Cambridge, Mass., 8 February 1868Frederick Law Olmsted to Robert Dale Owen, 21 February 1868Frederick Law Olmsted to Mary Perkins Olmsted, 23 August 1868Frederick Law Olmsted to Mary Perkins Olmsted, 25 August 1868Frederick Law Olmsted to Calvert Vaux, 29 August 1868“Preliminary Report upon the Proposed Suburban Village at Riverside, near Chicago,” 1 September 1868Frederick Law Olmsted to Edwin Channing Larned, 10 November 1868“Report on the Proposed City Park” [Albany, N.Y.], 1 December 1868Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Bowles, 30 December 1868Notes on Tree Grouping at Riverside, c. 1868Notes on Architecture and Urban Growth in New York City, c. 1868“Report Accompanying a Design for the Parade Ground,” 1868On Recreation and Common School Education, c. 1868–69“Report to the Brooklyn Park Commission,” 1 January 1869Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 9 April 1869Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 10 April 1869Frederick Law Olmsted to Leverett W. Murray, 24 April 1869Frederick Law Olmsted to Edward Everett Hale, 21 October 1869Frederick Law Olmsted to Emery E. Childs, 28 October 1869 Chapter V: January 1870–November 1871[Editorial Introduction]“Report to the Brooklyn Park Commissioners,” January 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Park Commissioners of the Borough of New Britain, Conn., 23 March 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to William Augustus Stearns, 5 April 1870Report to the Committee on Park Improvement of Fall River, Mass., June 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to William Watts Folwell, 18 June 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 20 June 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles K. Hamilton, 22 July 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 24 July 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, 2 August 1870Frederick Law Olmsted to William Butler Duncan, 22 September 1870“The Central Park—Character of the Proposed Change—A Protest," 21 December 1870“Report on Tompkins Park Improvement,” 1870“Report to the Brooklyn Park Commissioners,” January 1871Frederick Law Olmsted to Alfred T. Field, 11 April 1871Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick John Kingsbury, 20 April 1871Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Bowles, 2 June 1871Report on Park Site for the City of Hartford Addressed to C. M. Pond Esq., c. June 1871Preliminary Suggestions for the Grounds of the Buffalo State Hospital for the Insane, 7 July 1871Frederick Law Olmsted to Oliver Crosby Bullard, 14 September 1871Instructions for Planting the South Part of the Long Meadow [Prospect Park],” 14 September 1871Frederick Law Olmsted to William Hammond Hall, 5 October 1871Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick John Kingsbury, 8 October 1871“Suburban Home Grounds,” 26 October 1871“Chicago in Distress,” 2 November 1871 Chapter VI: November 1871–June 1872[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Loring Brace, 24 November 1871“Report to the Brooklyn Park Commissioners,” January 1872Prospectus of the New Suburban District of Tarrytown Heights, February 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Columbus Ryan, 27 February 1872“Memorandum [to] Mr Dempker,” 1 March 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 13 March 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Eliot Norton, 14 March 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Gardeners, c. April – May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Bowles, 7 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Bowles, 11 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Bowles, 13 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Samuel Bowles, 16 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to William Robinson, 17 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to George E. Waring, Jr., 23 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 25 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Abner Jackson, 25 May 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to James Miller McKim, 28 June 1872 Chapter VII: July 1872–January 1874[Editorial Introduction]Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, 17 July 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, 23 October 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Abigail Williams May, 26 October 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry Bromfield Rogers, 13 December 1872Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick John Kingsbury, 28 January 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to John Charles Olmsted, 29 January 1873Reasons to Stay on the Park, February 1873“Report of the Landscape Architect on Riverside Park and Avenue,” 29 March 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 19 May 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 2 June 1873“Central Park Changes,” June 3, 1873“Report of the Landscape Architect on the Recent Changes in the Keepers’ Service” [Central Park], 8 July 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, c. 10 July 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Henry G. Stebbins, 30 July 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Frederick Newman Knapp, 26 August 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 13 September 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Andrew Dickson White, 16 September 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Salem H. Wales, 11 October 1873Frederick Law Olmsted to Charles Loring Brace, 21 December 1873“Report to the Brooklyn Park Commissioners,” 1 January 1874