The Early Boston Years, 1882–1890
Scheduled for Publication in 2012
Volume 8 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted will contain the most significant letters, reports, and newspaper and journal articles written by Olmsted between 1882 and 1890. Scheduled for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012, it will bring to light correspondence and plans from Olmsted's many works in the Boston area and will document projects throughout the country that the firm created during its first years in Brookline. This volume covers a critical period in Olmsted's life during which he relocated to Brookline, Massachusetts, and established Fairsted, his family home and professional office at 99 Warren Street (today the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site). Click here to read more about Volume 8.
Volume 8 Table of Contents
1882
FLO to Oakes Angier Ames, April 1882, Memorial Cairn, North Easton, MA
FLO to Elizabeth Henderson Guild, May 29, 1882: Residence, Nahant, MA
FLO to Montgomery Schuyler, August 22, 1882: Residential subdivision on upper-East Side, Manhattan
“Trees in Streets and Parks,” Sanitarian, September 1882
The Park for Detroit, November 1882: Belle Isle, Detroit, MI
FLO, Report on Capitol Grounds, in “Annual Report of the Architect of the United States Capitol,” 1882
FLO to Worthington Whittredge: Summit, NJ, village improvement
1883
FLO to the South Park Commission of Chicago, February 28, 1883
“Improvement of Easton's Beach,” March 13, 1883: Easton’s Beach, Newport RI
“Report of Fred’k Law Olmsted, to the Trustees of Cushing's Island Co.” May 10, 1883: Summer colony on Cushing’s Island, ME
FLO to James Cameron MacKenzie, May 21, 1883: Lawrenceville School, NJ
FLO, Report on Capitol Grounds, in “Annual Report of the Architect of the United States Capitol,” July 1883
FLO to Felker L. Temple, August 21, 1883: Back Bay Fens, Boston
FLO to Felker L. Temple, November 22, 1883, Plantings for Beacon Street Entrance, Back Bay Fens, Boston
“Report of Frederick Law Olmsted, Esq. to the Park Commissioners of Wilmington, Del.,” December 22, 1883
FLO to Charles Follen McKim, December 24, 1883: Appleton estate, Lenox, MA
“Report of the Landscape Architect,” FLO to Charles Henry Dalton, December 24, 1883: Boston Parks
1884
FLO to Charles Henry Dalton, January 18, 1884: Boston Parks
FLO to Charles Townsend Hubbard, February 2, 1884: Private residence, “Ridgehurst,” Weston, MA
FLO to Felker L. Temple, March 7, 1884: Beacon Street entrance at Back Bay Fens, Boston
FLO to John Stirling, May 12, 1884: Belle Isle, Detroit
FLO to John C. Olmsted, May 30, 1884: Belle Isle, Detroit
FLO to Salem Howe Wales, July 5, 1884: New York City parks
FLO to Charles Henry Dalton, August 26, 1884: Boston parks
FLO to Charles Henry Dalton, Sept. 6, 1884: Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
FLO to John C. Olmsted, Sept. 12, 1884: “Fairsted,” Brookline, MA
FLO to Charles A. Williams, October, 1884: Memorial Park, New London, CT
FLO to Bronson C. Rumsey, November 1884: Suburban residential development, Yonkers, NY
FLO to Charles Loring Brace, November 1, 1884: Personal
FLO to Mortimer L. Smith, November 24, 1884: Belle Isle, Detroit
FLO to John C. Olmsted, Dec. 6, 1884: Boston Parks
“Report on Back Bay Fens,” in Tenth Annual Report, Boston Park Commissioners, December 1884
“Report on West Roxbury Park,” in Tenth Annual Report, Boston Park Commissioners, December 1884
“Report on Wood Island Park,” in Tenth Annual Report, Boston Park Commissioners, December 1884
1885
FLO to “Dear Madam,” January 16, 1885: Fences on grounds of residences
FLO to William McMillan, March 16, 1885: Buffalo parks
FLO to Stanford White, April 9, 1885: Memories of Richard Grant White
FLO to Charles A. Williams, May 9, 1885: Memorial Park, New London, CT
"On Points of View and Methods of Criticism of Public Works of Landscape Architecture," American Architect and Building News, June 20 and June 29, 1885
“Specifications for Playstead Terrace, Franklin Park,” July 30, 1885
FLO to John Daniel Crimmins, August 6, 1885: Grant’s Tomb, Riverside Park
FLO to Percival Walter St. George, December 8, 1885: Books on Landscape Architecture
1886
FLO to James Cameron Mackenzie, February 6, 1886: Lawrenceville School, NJ
FLO to Edward Clark, February 15, 1886: US Capitol Grounds
FLO to Charles Eliot, February 25, 1886: Eliot’s travels in Europe
FLO to Charles Eliot, March 4, 1886: Eliot’s travels in Europe
FLO to Felker L. Temple, March 15, 1886: Back Bay Fens, Boston
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, April 6, 1886: H.H. Richardson
FLO to Endicott Peabody, April 19, 1886: Groton School, Groton, MA
FLO to Edward Payson Wilbur, April 29, 1886: Boston parks
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, May 2, 1886: Biography of H.H. Richardson
FLO to Henry Rutgers Beekman, June 10, 1886: New York City parks
FLO to Charles Eliot, July 20, 1886: Eliot’s travels in Europe
FLO to William Dorsheimer, July 21, 1886: Niagara Falls Reservation
FLO to William Boyd Allison, July 23, 1886: U.S. Capitol Grounds
FLO to Anne Whitney, August 3, 1886, Boston Parks: Whitney’s statue of Lief Ericcson in Boston
FLO to George W. Vanderbilt, August 9, 1886: Vanderbilt family Mausoleum, New Dorp, Staten Island
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, August 11, 1886: Biography of H. H. Richardson
"A Healthy Change in the Tone of the Human Heart," Century Magazine, October 1886
FLO to Richard P. Hammond, Jr., October 5, 1886: “Report on Golden Gate Park”
FLO to Charles Eliot, October 28, 1886: Eliot’s professional career
FLO to Leland Stanford, November 27, 1886: Stanford University campus
“Report on Charles River Embankment,” in Twelfth Annual Report, Boston Park Commissioners, December 1886
“The Beacon Street Plan,” December 4, 1886: Brookline, MA, streets
1887
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, February 6, 1887: Olmsted’s collaborations
with Richardson
FLO to Charles Loring Brace, March 15, 1887: Personal
FLO to Edward W. Bok, April 4, 1887: Henry Ward Beecher
FLO to Sherman Skinner Jewett, April 11, 1887: Buffalo Parks
FLO to Richard Morris Hunt, May 5, 1887: Vanderbilt family Mausoleum
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, May 17, 1887: Niagara Reservation
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, May 18, 1887: Niagara Reservation
FLO to Charles Allerton Coolidge, May 22, 1887: Stanford University campus
FLO to Oakes Angier Ames, June 5, 1887: Memorial Cairn, North Easton, MA
FLO to Calvert Vaux, June 30, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to John Daniel Crimmins, July 2, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to Calvert Vaux, July 9, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to William Seward Webb, July 12, 1887: Shelburne Farms, Vermont
FLO to Calvert Vaux, July 13, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to John Daniel Crimmins, July 15, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to William Fischer, July 21, 1887: Playstead Overlook in Franklin Park
FLO to Dwight Hinckley Olmstead, July 31, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to Dwight Hinckley Olmstead, August 7, 1887: New York City parks
FLO to Colonel Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, August 15, 1887: Queen Victoria Park, Ontario
FLO to John C. Olmsted, Aug. 31, 1887: New York City parks
"On Gardening," The Art Review, Fall 1887
FLO to Alfred Dupont Chandler, September 9, 1887: Lake Sunapee Resort
General Plan for the Improvement of The Morningside Park, October 1, 1887: Morningside Park, New York City
FLO to John C. Olmsted, October 5, 1887: Playstead Overlook at Franklin Park
FLO to Robert Douglas, December 5, 1887: Boston Harbor Islands reforestation
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, December 21, 1887: Biography of H.H. Richardson
FLO to Benjamin Dean, December 30, 1887: Boston Parks
1888
FLO to William McMillan, January 2, 1888: Buffalo Parks
FLO to William Caleb Loring, April 2, 1888: Residence, Pride’s Crossing, MA
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, April 6, 1888: New York State Capitol
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, April 9, 1888: New York State Capitol
"Plan for a Small Homestead” Garden & Forest, May 2, 1888
FLO to Cyrus K. Remington, May 28, 1888: Niagara Reservation
FLO to J.J.R. Croes, May 30, 1888: Vanderbilt family Mausoleum
"Terrace and Veranda--Back and Front,” Garden & Forest, June 6, 1888
FLO to William Runyon Martin, June 9, 1888: New York City parks
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, June 14, 1888: Biography of H. H. Richardson
FLO to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, June 29, 1888: “Rough Point” estate, Newport, RI
FLO to Frederick William Vanderbilt, August 2, 1888: “Rough Point” estate
FLO to John Daniel Crimmins, August 2, 1888: Designing of Cemeteries
FLO to Edward Mott Moore, August 5, 1888: Rochester, NY, parks
FLO to William D. Sloane, August 25, 1888: “Elm Court” estate, Lenox, MA
FLO to Edwin Fleming, October 20, 1888: Buffalo parks
FLO to Morris K. Jesup, October 20, 1888: “Belvoir Terrace” estate, Lenox, MA
"Foreign Plants & American Scenery" Garden & Forest, October 24, 1888
1889
FLO to General Bela M. Hughes, January 15, 1889: “Lake Wauconda” summer colony, Perry Park, CO
FLO to Morris K. Jesup, January. 22, 1889: “Belvoir Terrace” estate
"Remarks About A Difficulty Peculiar To The Park Department Of City Governments,” Address to The New England Club, 26th January, 1889
FLO to the Buffalo Park Commissioners, January. 26, 1889
FLO to Edward Mott Moore, January 26, 1889: Rochester Parks
FLO to Morris Ketchum Jesup, January 31, 1889: “Belvoir Terrace” estate
“History of Streets,” (Talk to the Brookline Club, Feb. 1889)
FLO to Morris K. Jesup, February 11, 1889: “Belvoir Terrace” estate
FLO to Edward Clark, February 11, 1889: U.S. Capitol Grounds
FLO to Thomas Welch, February 16, 1889: Niagara Reservation
FLO to Richard Morris Hunt, March 2, 1889: Biltmore Estate, North Carolina
FLO to Jacob Weidenmann, March 16, 1889: Re Brooklyn Park Commission
FLO to Alpheus Hyatt, March 24, 1889: Zoo in Franklin Park, Boston
FLO to James H. Robb, March 30, 1889: New York City parks
FLO to Joseph Story Fay, April 10, 1889: New York City parks
FLO to Thomas H. Clark, April 10, 1889: Alabama State Capitol
FLO to Robert Douglas, April 18, 1889: Rochester Parks
FLO to Robert Douglas, April 18, 1889: Biltmore Estate
Observations on the Treatment of Public Plantations, More Especially Relating to the Use of the Axe, April 30, 1889
FLO to Alpheus Hyatt, May 6, 1889: Zoo in Franklin Park, Boston
FLO to Waldo Hutchins, June 8, 1889: New York City parks
FLO to Waldo Hutchins, June 1889: New York City parks
FLO to Edward Clark, June 11, 1889: U.S. Capitol grounds
FLO to Richard Watson Gilder, July 10, 1889: Yosemite Reservation
FLO to Thomas Seay, July 10, 1889: Alabama State Capitol
FLO to George W. Vanderbilt, July 12, 1889: Biltmore Estate
FLO to Leland Stanford, July 14, 1889: Stanford University campus
FLO to Charles Henry Dalton, July 29, 1889: Boston Parks
FLO to Thomas Harvey Clark, August 5, 1889: Reconstruction and race relations in the United States
FLO to William Fischer, August 6, 1889: Playstead Overlook, Franklin Park
FLO to Calvin C. Laney, August 9, 1889: Rochester Parks
FLO to William Fischer, August 11, 1889: Planting of Playstead Overlook
FLO to Sylvester Baxter, August 20, 1889: Lynn Woods, MA
FLO to Charles Augustus Roberts, August 20, 1889: “Lake Wauconda,” Perry Park, CO
FLO to Sylvester Baxter, September 2, 1889: Boston metropolitan parks
FLO to William Fischer, September 30, 1889: Franklin Park
“What is a Useless Fence?” American Garden, October 1889:
FLO to Henry R. Towne, October 2, 1889: Proposed World’s Fair in NYC
FLO to Charles A. Roberts, October 5, 1889: “Lake Wauconda,” Perry Park, CO
FLO to Robert Underwood Johnson, October 9, 1889: Yosemite Reservation
FLO to Frederick William Vanderbilt, October 11, 1889, “Rough Point” estate
FLO to Charles A. Roberts, October 14, 1889: “Lake Wauconda,” Perry Park, CO
FLO to William A. Thompson, November 11, 1889: Biltmore Estate
FLO to Philip A. Chase, November 29, 1889: Lynn Woods, MA
FLO to Matthias D. Ross, [December 1889]: Zoological gardens in Boston Parks
1890
“To the Editor of American Florist, ‘Landscape,’” American Florist, January 15, 1890
FLO to Charles Loring Brace, January 18, 1890: Personal
FLO to James G. Gall, Jr., February 8, 1890: Biltmore Estate
Governmental Preservation of Natural Scenery, March 8, 1890
