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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 1822-1903 1

EARLY EXPERIENCES: THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO HIS LATER CAREER

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AMERICAN LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN 1857 121

FACING PAGE

THE FIVE FRIENDS IN NEW HAVEN DAYS 66 Charles Trask, Frederick J. Kingsbury, John Hull Olmsted, Charles Loring Brace, and Frederick Law Olmsted.

FACSIMILE OF LETTER WITH MR. OLMSTED'S EARLIEST SKETCH FOR IMPROVEMENT OF GROUNDS, 1847 84

FACSIMILE OF PETITION TO SECURE APPOINTMENT OF MR. OLMSTED AS SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL PARK, 1857 120

LIST OF PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS

A sequential list of the more important papers included in this volume. Matter previously printed is shown by italic type.

Autobiographical Fragments:

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Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man 45

Hints Aidful to Elementary Self-Education in Design 58

Selections from Letters to Members of Family and Boyhood Friends, 1845-1851 64

Account by Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted of Life on Staten Island, and Meeting of Olmsted and Perkins Families 78

Selection from Paper by John Charles Olmsted read before Boston Society of Landscape Architects, 1916: The Influence of A. J. Downing upon the Designers of Central Park 88

Letter from F. L. Olmsted to Andrew Jackson Downing, 1850 89

Letter from Asa Gray recommending F. L. Olmsted 120

A Letter from F. L. Olmsted to a Park Commissioner of Rochester, N. Y., 1888, regarding the Status of Landscape Architecture in the United States 127

Frederick Law Olmsted

Landscape Architect

PART I

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Oct. 8 "To school and board with Rev. Joab Brace, of Newington."--J. O. Remained there with visits home and trips with Father till June 30, 1836, fitting for college.

Sep. 1 "To Grammar School with John."--J. O.

Dec. 1 "To Mr. Perkins' school, East Hartford. Now ready to enter college."--J. O.

Nov. 20 "To Andover, Mass., to study engineering with Prof. Barton. "--J. O.

June An "honorary member" of the Class of 1847 at Yale.

Oct. 20 Frederick writes "full of enthusiasm on tree planting and nurseries."

Dec. 11 Started on Southern tour.

Nov. 10 "Fredk. and John started on their journey to Mexico and California."--J. O.

Sep. 11 Appointed Superintendent of the Central Park in New York.

May 17 Frederick Law Olmsted appointed Architect in Chief of the Central Park.

Jun. 13 Married in Bogardus House, Central Park Mary Cleveland Olmsted, widow of his brother John Hull Olmsted, thus becoming step-father to her children: John Charles, Charlotte, and Owen. Moved later in the summer to the old convent building at Mt. St. Vincent in the Park.

Sep. 28 Sailed for Liverpool on the "Persia," having been granted leave of absence and a letter of credit for ?100 by the Park Commissioners "to procure in Europe material and information of advantage to Central Park."

Dec. 5 Sailed from Queenstown on the "America," arriving home Dec. 18.

Mar. 29 At Hartford with Mr. Vaux to look at the grounds of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane, for which advice and plan subsequently given.

Jun. 14 A son, John Theodore Olmsted, born. Died in infancy.

Aug. 6 Thrown from carriage and thigh broken. Park work directed from bed and later from litter.

Jan'y Resignation presented to Park Commissioners and withdrawn, "all carefully kept mum so as not to embarrass the proceedings at Albany."

Apr. 17 "My resignation, and all that, is before a Committee this week." Withdrawn.

June Leave of absence granted to go to Washington as Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, which he helped to organize, and of which he was chief executive officer until 1863. Connection with Central Park still retained.

Oct. 28 Daughter, Marion Olmsted, born at Mt. St. Vincent.

Oct'r In New York to work on the Park, "object and only justification for being away from Washington."

Offered office of Street Commissioner by the Mayor of New York. Accepted "on condition that I am not to be trammelled in appointments, etc." Not consummated.

Dec. 15 Frederick met his father in New York. "Fredk's Washington address, 185 South B St., corner of W. 9th, back of Smithsonian. Office San. Com., Adams House, 244 F St."--J. O.

May 14 Olmsted & Vaux resign as Landscape Architects of Central Park. Resolution of confidence passed.

Summer Obliged to withdraw from Sanitary Commission, owing to overwork.

Aug. 10 Offered Superintendency of the Mariposa Mining estates in California. Accepted.

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