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

Sep. 14 Sailed without family in the "Champion" for California. Arrived at San Francisco Oct. 11.

Late Personal property and professional library burned Fall while in storage at Staten Island Farm.

Honorary A.M. from Harvard University, on account of work for United States Sanitary Commission.

Summer Olmsted family in Yosemite camping. Mr. Olmsted made trip Eastward through the High Sierras accompanied by John Charles Olmsted and Professor Brewer of the State Geological Survey.

Sep. 27 Appointed Commissioner of Yosemite and Mariposa Big Tree Grove by Governor Low of California under act of Congress granting same as State Reservation. Made President of the Commission.

Oct'r "Engaged in plans for laying out a cemetery at Oakland--and have been consulted as to a park there."

Manager's General Report of the Mariposa Estates published in New York.

Considers undertaking a newspaper in San Francisco "instead of going with Vaux on the Brooklyn Park."

Mar. 12 Writes to C. Vaux: "I am getting on with my cemetery--I have made preliminary reconnoissance for large piece of ground held by College of California which I propose to lay out upon the Llewellyn plan--I have given plans for improvement of a country seat."

Jul. 19 Olmsted & Vaux reappointed Landscape Architects to the Board of Commissioners of Central Park.

Jul. 24 "I have undertaken to lay out a village and grounds for the College of California which will occupy what time I have to spare for a month or two."--F. L. O. to J. O.

Jul. 26 Notified of election as General Secretary of American Freedmen's Union. Refused.

Aug. 31 Proposes to accept Central Park appointment of which he has just "last night received word from Vaux" and to resign from managership of Mariposa Estates.

Sep'r Advising on park for San Francisco.

Olmsted & Vaux appointed to design the Brooklyn Park.

Nov. 17 Officially selected to report to the Board of Supervisors a plan for a public park for San Francisco.

Nov. 22 Arrived with family in New York from California.

Report on Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Olmsted, Vaux & Co., printed, Washington, D. C.

Pamphlet: A Few Things to be thought of before proceeding to plan buildings for the National Agricultural College, printed.

Spring Olmsted family residing at Amos Street, Clifton, near Vanderbilt's Landing, Staten Island, for Mr. Olmsted's convenience in ferrying across to Brooklyn for the Park work.

Mar. 31 Report on Public Pleasure Grounds for San Francisco submitted.

May 29 Olmsted, Vaux & Co. reappointed Landscape Architects to the Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Preliminary report of the Landscape Architects was published 1866.

Honorary A.M. Amherst College.

June Advice to Charles Eliot Norton on subdivision into lots and street connections of property near Harvard University. . At this time a strong friendship was formed between the Norton and Olmsted families, and Mr. Olmsted's visits to the Nortons were among the few personal visits he made.

Oct. 4 Visit to Newark, N. J., to give advice on park, followed by report.

Reports for Brooklyn Park Commission on Washington Park, Parade Grounds, and Street Plans, printed.

Feb. 8 Plan to C. E. Norton, Harvard University, for connecting walks through University grounds, vicinity Oxford Street and Norton property.

Aug't To see Barry and "learn what had become of the Rochester Park project." Also with Calvert Vaux visited Vassar College to give advice as to plan.

Aug. 14 "I have a business invitation today from Buffalo and shall splice it into the Chicago expedition in some way." Aug. 25, addressed public meeting in Buffalo in regard to Park project.

Aug. 29 Mentions jobs in letter to C. Vaux: Buffalo, Brooklyn, Chicago-Riverside.

Conversation at Cataract House with Mr. William Sep'r Dorsheimer and others regarding the preservation of Niagara Falls.

Address before American Social Science Association at Lowell Institute, Boston: Public Parks and the Enlargement of towns .

Mar. 5 Appointed on the Commission for the Improvement of Staten Island, with H. H. Richardson and others.

Apr. 5 Advice to Amherst College.

Apr. 7 Olmsted, Vaux & Co. agreement with Chicago South Park Commission.

Jul. 22 Advice to C. K. Hamilton in regard to proposed resort or "exposition" on Staten Island.

Jul. 24 Son, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., born.

Aug. 2 Letter of advice to General Meigs in regard to planting of National Cemeteries.

Nov. 30 Olmsted and Vaux resigned from their Central Park duties after their advice had been disregarded and politics rendered their situation impossible.

Mar. 11 Olmsted, Vaux & Co., asked to prepare a plan for park in Philadelphia and preliminary sketch submitted.

July "My age is 50 years, residence New York City, occupation Landscape Architect."--F. L. O. in deposition.

At work on Tarrytown Heights subdivision.

Sep'r Shared house in 45th St. with friends, and spent there winter of 1871-1872.

Oct'r Advice on subdivision at Irvington, N. Y. for Cyrus W. Field.

Nov. 23 Olmsted and Vaux reappointed Landscape Architects of New York Department of Public Parks.

May Report on sites for Trinity College, Hartford.

May 29 Appointed a Commissioner of the New York Department of Public Parks, and elected President and Treasurer of the Board. Resigned and reappointed Landscape Architect, Oct. 24, C. Vaux becoming Consulting Landscape Architect.

Oct. 18 Partnership between Olmsted and Vaux dissolved for reasons of mutual convenience.

Late Moved to house at 209 West 46th Street, permanent Fall residence and office until 1883 .

Dec. 13 Report to Massachusetts General Hospital on sites for its "Retreat for the Insane."

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