Parks, politics, and patronage 1874-1882 / Charles E. Beveridge, Carolyn F. Hoffman, Kenneth Hawkins, editors ; Tina Hummel, assistant editor.

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Main Author: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Other Authors: Beveridge, Charles E., Hoffman, Carolyn F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2007.
Series:Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted ; v. 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Short Titles Used in Citations
  • Chapter I. January 1874-August 1874
  • "Country Living," Nation, January 22, 1874
  • To Justin Smith Morrill, January 22, 1874
  • To Salem H. Wales, March 4, 1874
  • To William Hammond Hall, March 23, 1874
  • To William Hammond Hall, March 28, 1874
  • To Seymour Ainsworth, Hiram Tompkins, and John L. Perry, April 21, 1874
  • To Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, May 14, 1874
  • To Justin Smith Morrill and James Henry Platt, Jr., June 9, 1874
  • To Charles Sprague Sargent, July 8, 1874
  • To Justin Smith Morrill, August 16, 1874
  • Chapter II. August 1874-January 1875
  • To Henry G. Stebbins, August 27, 1874
  • To Albert Gallatin Browne, November 12, 1874
  • To the Commissioners of Mount-Royal Park, November 21, 1874
  • To Whitelaw Reid, November 26, 1874
  • "The National Capitol," December 5, 1874
  • To the Buffalo Park Commission, December 15, 1874
  • To Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, January 15, 1875
  • To Henry G. Stebbins, January 15, 1875
  • To Frederick William Poppey, January 21, 1875
  • To the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, c. January-February 1875
  • Chapter III. February 1875-February 1876
  • To the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, March 1, 1875
  • To Thomas Pynchon, c. March 10, 1875
  • To William L. Fischer, March 14, 1875
  • To William Robinson, c. March 20-30, 1875
  • To Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., May 13, 1875
  • To Henry G. Stebbins, May 18, 1875
  • To Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, June 1, 1875
  • To John A. Partridge, September 9, 1875
  • To William Hammond Hall, September 13, 1875
  • To Walter L. Sessions, October 9, 1875
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, October 11, 1875
  • To Thomas Hill, November 3, 1875
  • To George Jones, November 19, 1875
  • To Henry G. Stebbins, December 3, 1875
  • To Dennis Bowen, January 1, 1876
  • To Henry G. Stebbins, February 1, 1876
  • To Rev. J.H. Miller, February 28, 1876
  • Chapter IV. April 1876-December 1876
  • To William Edward Dorsheimer, April 2, 1876
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, April 2, 1876
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, April 4, 1876
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, April 8, 1876
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, April 22, 1876
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, June 6, 1876
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, June 7, 1876
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, July 26, 1876
  • To William Runyon Martin, August 9, 1876
  • "Mr. Olmsted on Landscape Gardening," The Garden, August 12, 1876
  • To William McMillan, September 10, 1876
  • To Dennis Bowen, September 10, 1876
  • To William McMillan, September 11, 1876
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, September 28, 1876
  • To Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., October 1, 1876
  • "Preliminary Report of the Landscape Architect and the Civil and Topographical Engineer, upon the Laying Out of the Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth Wards," November 15, 1876
  • "Report of the Landscape Architect and the Civil and Topographical Engineer, Accompanying a Plan for Laying Out that Part of the Twenty-Fourth Ward Lying West of the Riverdale Road," November 21, 1876
  • To Thomas M. Lanahan, December 23, 1876
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, December 27, 1876
  • Chapter V. January 1877-October 1877
  • Memorandum on New York Capitol Patronage, 1877
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, February 15, 1877
  • To Whitelaw Reid, March 2, 1877
  • New York State Capitol Testimony, March 6, 1877
  • To William McMillan, March 16, 1877
  • To William Runyon Martin, March 20, 1877
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, March 26, 1877
  • "To the Public," March 26, 1877
  • To the Mount Royal Park Commission, April 28, 1877
  • To William Runyon Martin, May 16, 1877
  • "The Central Park," May 19, 1877: American Architect and Building News, June 2, 1877
  • To Horatio Admiral Nelson, July 24, 1877
  • To Mary Perkins Olmsted, July 24, 1877
  • To Mary Perkins Olmsted, July 25, 1877
  • To Mary Perkins Olmsted, August 10, 1877
  • To John Charles Olmsted, October 7, 1877
  • Chapter VI. October 1877-July 1878
  • To William Runyon Martin, October 31, 1877
  • "Landscape Gardening" [1877]: Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, 1878
  • To the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, January 2, 1878
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, May 13, 1878
  • To Robert Garrett, June 5, 1878
  • "Notice to Watchmen for the Capitol Grounds," July 7, 1878
  • Chapter VII. January 1879-October 1879
  • Review of New York City Park Department Policies in 1878, January 8, 1879
  • To Charles Sprague Sargent, January 27, 1879
  • To Charles Sprague Sargent, January 29, 1879
  • To Edward Clark, May 23, 1879
  • To Edouard Francois Andre, June 6, 1879
  • To Edward Clark, June 21, 1879
  • To Henry Y. Attrill and Benjamin E. Smith, July 30, 1879
  • To Henry Y. Attrill, September 23, 1879
  • To James Terry Gardner, October 2, 1879
  • To James Terry Gardner, October 3, 1879
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, October 10, 1879
  • Chapter VIII. December 1879-May 1880
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, December 9, 1879
  • To Tiffany & Company, December 9, 1879
  • To Henry Whitney Bellows, December 22, 1879
  • To Henry Whitney Bellows, December 24, 1879
  • "The Future of New York," New-York Daily Tribune, December 28, 1879
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, January 22, 1880
  • To Joseph Phineas Davis, January 24, 1880
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, January 24, 1880
  • To the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Parks of the City of Boston, January 26, 1880
  • To Barthold S. Schlesinger, February 9, 1880
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, February 15, 1880
  • "Notes by Mr. Olmsted." in Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls for the Year 1879 [c. March 22, 1880]
  • "Improvement of the Back-Bay, Boston," The American Architect and Building News, April 3, 1880
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, May 5, 1880
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, May 7, 1880
  • Chapter IX. May 1880-December 1880
  • To John Charles Phillips, May 11, 1880
  • To the Earl of Derby, June 11, 1880
  • To Thomas Wisedell, June 13, 1880
  • To William Oliver Buchanan, June 15, 1880
  • To John Charles Phillips, August 23, 1880
  • To Edward Clark, c. August-September 1880
  • To Sylvester Baxter, November 9, 1880
  • To Edward Clark, November 18, 1880
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, November 29, 1880
  • To the Commissioners of Parks, "Suggestions for the Improvement of Muddy River," December 1880
  • Chapter X. February 1881-December 1881
  • To Horace William Shaler Cleveland, February 9, 1881
  • To Paul Cornell, April 12, 1881
  • To C.H. Dalton, "Mr. Olmsted's Report," May 17, 1881
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, May 30, 1881
  • To Barthold S. Schlesinger, June 17, 1881
  • "Influence," c. July 1881
  • To John Charles Phillips, September 27, 1881
  • To Cornelius Rea Agnew, c. June-October 1881
  • To Edward Clark, October 1, 1881
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, October 19, 1881
  • To Charles Eliot Norton, November 2, 1881
  • To Charles Francis Adams, Jr., November 29, 1881
  • To Charles Henry Dalton, December 29, 1881
  • To John Sterling, December 30, 1881
  • Chapter XI. January 1882-March 1882
  • To Edward Henry Rollins, January 7, 1882
  • To Edward Henry Rollins, c. January-February 1882
  • "Central Park Circular," c. February 1882
  • To George Kessler, March 5, 1882
  • To John Charles Phillips, March 6, 1882
  • To Charles Loring Brace, March 7, 1882
  • Appendix I. Chronology of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1874-1882
  • Appendix II. The Spoils of the Park with a Few Leaves from the Deep-Laden Note-Books of "A Wholly Unpractical Man." (1882)
  • Appendix III. Patronage Journal (1873-1877)
  • Appendix IV. List of Textual Alterations.