LIST OF PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS
Reading edition
A sequential list of the more important papers included in this volume. Matter previously printed is shown by italic type.
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Autobiographical Fragments:
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
Selections from Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, Edition of 1852 94
Selection from A Journey in Texas, Edition of 1857, and A Journey in the Back Country, Edition of 1860 111
Petition that F. L. Olmsted be Appointed Superintendent of the Central Park, 1857, signed by Washington Irving and others facing 120
Letter from Asa Gray recommending F. L. Olmsted 120
Selection from Article by F. L. Olmsted on Parks, Appleton’s New American Cyclopedia, 1861 125
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 1822-1903