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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENT B: “To Make Landscape Architecture My Calling”: 1822–1852
TO JOHN OLMSTED & MARY ANN BULL: Off Hong Kong: September 1843
TO MARIA OLMSTED: A Tour of Whampoa: November 1843
THE REAL CHINA: Chinese Civilities: September–December 1843
TO JOHN HULL OLMSTED: On a Connecticut Farm: June 1845
TO CHARLES LORING BRACE: “An Orator for the Fourth”: July 1845
TO FREDERICK KINGSBURY: “Full of ‘Doubts’”: August 1846
TO CHARLES LORING BRACE: “Questions of ‘Belief’”: March 1848
THE PEOPLE'S PARK AT BIRKENHEAD, NEAR LIVERPOOL: “Forever the People’s Own”: May 1851
TO CHARLES LORING BRACE: At the North American Phalanx: July 1852
THE SOUTH. NUMBER SEVEN: “This Beggarly Farming”: March 1853
THE SOUTH. NUMBER EIGHT: Free Labor and Slave Labor: March 1853
THE SOUTH. NUMBER NINE: Slavery in Virginia: April 1853
THE SOUTH. NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT: “The Laws of the South”: July 1853
TO CHARLES LORING BRACE: “A Thorough Aristocrat”: December 1853
THE SOUTH. NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN: Slaves & Non-slaveholding Whites: January 1854
A TOUR IN THE SOUTHWEST. NUMBER EIGHT: German Immigrants in Texas: March 1854
PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN UNPRACTICAL MAN: Politics and the Park: 1848–1858
DESCRIPTION OF A PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CENTRAL PARK (“GREENSWARD”): The Greensward Plan: April 1858
TO HENRY H. ELLIOTT: A Park for Washington Heights: August 1860
PARK: Parks: An Encyclopedic View: 1861
TO MARY PERKINS OLMSTED: After Bull Run: July 1861
FROM REPORT ON THE DEMORALIZATION OF THE VOLUNTEERS: Anatomy of a Rout: September 1861
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW-YORK TIMES: “To Sever These Sinews”: November 1861
TO GEORGE FREDERIC MAGOUN: “For the Army of a Common Country”: February 1862
TO JAMES REED SPALDING: A Plan for the Slaves at Port Royal: February 1862
TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “The Duty of Government to these Negroes”: March 1862
ARGUMENT ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY AND AFTERWARDS TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR, AFTER THE FORMER HAD ASKED ME TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE NEGRO POPULATION OF THE SEA ISLANDS: “A Just Alternative to Slavery”: April 1862
LABORS OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION: Hospital Transports: May 1862
TO JOHN FOSTER JENKINS: “The Sick are Coming in Very Rapidly”: May 1862
TO HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS: “More Appalling Things Than were ever Imagined”: June 1862
TO MARY PERKINS OLMSTED: “A Terrible Week’s Work”: June 1862
TO MARY PERKINS OLMSTED: A Wartime Sketch: July 1862
TO HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS: A Call for Reinforcements: July 1862
TO CHARLES LORING BRACE: “Our Most Urgent Want”: August 1862
TO MARY PERKINS OLMSTED: “Our Many Sided Work”: September 1862
TO OLIVER WOLCOTT GIBBS: The Union League Club: November 1862
TO HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS: The Women’s Council: November 1862
TO CHARLES JANEWAY STILLÉ: The Emancipation Proclamation: February 1863
JOURNEY IN THE WEST (NASHVILLE TO MURFREESBORO WITH ROSENCRANS): A Visit With General Rosencrans: March 1863
JOURNEY IN THE WEST (LOUISVILLE TOWARD CAIRO): Southern Illinoisans: March 1863
TO JOHN OLMSTED: “A Visit to the Army”: April 1863
TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON: “Extermination of the Rebels”: April 1863
PROSPECTUS FOR A WEEKLY JOURNAL: Founding “The Nation”: June 1863
TO EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN: After Gettysburg: July 1863
TO IGNAZ ANTON PILAT: Tropical Landscapes: September–october 1863
TO MARY PERKINS OLMSTED: First Impressions at Mariposa: October 1863
FROM PREFACE TO THE PLAN FOR MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: A California Cemetery: May 1865
PRELIMINARY REPORT UPON THE YOSEMITE AND BIG TREE GROVE: “The Greatest Glory of Nature”: August 1865
FROM PRELIMINARY REPORT IN REGARD TO A PLAN OF PUBLIC PLEASURE GROUNDS FOR THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: A Park for San Francisco: March 1866
FROM REPORT UPON A PROJECTED IMPROVEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF THE COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, AT BERKELEY, NEAR OAKLAND: Situating a College: June 1866
FROM THE PIONEER CONDITION AND THE DRIFT OF CIVILIZATION IN AMERICA: Frontier Society: 1866
TO EDWARD MINER GALLAUDET: A Plan for Gallaudet: July 1866
TO RICHARD GRANT WHITE: Additions to Central Park: July 1866
TO FREDERICK NEWMAN KNAPP: Notes for a Boys’ School Principal: October 1866
FROM A FEW THINGS TO BE THOUGHT OF BEFORE PROCEEDING TO PLAN BUILDINGS FOR THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES: “Our Farmers’ Sons and Daughters”: December 1866
FROM ARCHITECT'S REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, AND THE MECHANIC ARTS, OF THE STATE OF MAINE: “A Most Valuable System of Self-Education”: January 1867
TO ANDREW DICKSON WHITE: Plans for Cornell: June 1867
FROM REPORT OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS: Prospect Park: January 1868
ADDRESS TO PROSPECT PARK SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION: “Park Purposes”: May 1868
PRELIMINARY REPORT UPON THE PROPOSED SUBURBAN VILLAGE AT RIVERSIDE, NEAR CHICAGO: A Suburb for Chicago: September 1868
TO EDWARD EVERETT HALE: Ruralizing the Urban, Urbanizing the Rustic: October 1869
PUBLIC PARKS AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF TOWNS: Parks and Towns: February 1870
REPORT OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS: “New Scenes of Natural Beauty”: January 1871
SUBURBAN HOME GROUNDS: “Miniature Pleasure-Grounds”: October 1871
MEMORANDUM RELATING TO CERTAIN WORK TO BE DONE, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, UNDER GENERAL DIRECTION OF MR. DEMKER: Plantings in Central Park: March 1872
TO GARDENERS: Instructions to Central Park Gardeners: April–may 1872
TO WILLIAM ROBINSON: “Use of the Central Park”: May 1872
TO SAMUEL BOWLES: Against Horace Greeley: May 1872
TO SAMUEL BOWLES: “Tendencies Most Hazardous to the Nation”: May 1872
TO SAMUEL BOWLES: “A Sharp Fight”: May 1872
TO SAMUEL BOWLES: “The Worst Habit Possible for a President”: May 1872
TO THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST: Declining a Vice Presidential Nomination: June 1872
TO JAMES MILLER MCKIM: “I Would Not Accept an Office”: June 1872
REPORT OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS: Prospect Park in Its Eighth Year: 1874
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL: A Report on Renovations at the Capitol: November 1874
LANDSCAPE GARDENING: “An Ideal in View”: 1877
THE FUTURE OF NEW-YORK: “Healthy Suburban Neighborhoods”: December 1879
“NOTES” IN THE SPECIAL REPORT OF THE NEW YORK STATE SURVEY ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE SCENERY OF NIAGRA FALLS: Preserving Niagara Falls: March 1880
FROM THE SPOILS OF THE PARK: Patronage and Corruption in the Parks Department: February 1882
TO OAKES ANGIER AMES: A Civil War Memorial: April 1882
TREES IN STREETS AND IN PARKS: “The Highest Value of a Park”: September 1882
FROM ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL: Plantings at the Capitol: 1882
REPORT ON CUSHING'S ISLAND: A Summer Retreat in Maine: May 1883
TO BRONSON CASE RUMSEY: “Suburban Real Estate Speculations”: November 1884
PAPER ON THE BACK BAY PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION READ BEFORE THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS: A Jewel in Boston’s Emerald Necklace: April 1886
“A HEALTHY CHANGE IN THE TONE OF THE HUMAN HEART”: “Local Resources”: October 1886
TO CALVERT VAUX: A Dispute with a Collaborator: July 1887
TO FREDERICK WILLIAM VANDERBILT: Plans for a Newport Estate: August 1888
FOREIGN PLANTS AND AMERICAN SCENERY: A Defense of Foreign Plants: October 1888
TO GEN. BELA M. HUGHES: A Summer Resort in Colorado: January 1889
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON VANDERBILT: Biltmore: July 1889
GOVERNMENTAL PRESERVATION OF NATURAL SCENERY: “Nothing of an Artificial Character”: March 1890
TO ROBERT TREAT PAINE: “Open Air Gymnasiums”: April 1890
TO ARCHIE CAMPBELL FISK: “The natural Advantages of the Site”: April 1890
TO LYMAN J. GAGE: “Preparations for the World’s Fair”: August 1890
TO CHARLES A. ROBERTS: “The Impression of a Community”: December 1890
TO CLARENCE PULLEN: A “Most Difficult Undertaking”: January 1891
TO HENRY VAN BRUNT: “A Poetic and Tranquilizing Influence”: January 1891
MEMORANDUM AS TO WHAT IS TO BE AIMED AT IN THE PLANNING OF THE DISTRICT OF THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION, AS PROPOSED MARCH, 1891: “Complex Dispositions of Light and Shade”: March 1891
TO RUDOLPH ULRICH: “Like The Banks of Some Tropical Rivers”: March 1891
TO WILLIAM JAMES: Ghosts and Waking Dreams: July 1891
TO WILLIAM ROBINSON: “In Sympathy with Nature”: September 1892
TO MARIANA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER: “A New Ideal of Local Scenery”: May 1893
TO MARIANA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER: “An Amateur of Scenery”: June 1893
TO WILLIAM A. STILES: “Men of Parisian Training and Associations”: March 1895
A HOMESTEAD; ITS CONSTITUENT PARTS AND ESSENTIALS: “The True Wealth of Our Country”: Undated
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