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.

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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