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Speeches and Writings File, 1839-1903 (continued)
1870 , Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns; Read Before the American Social Science Association at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Feb. 25, 1870 (Cambridge, Mass.: Printed for the American Social Science Association at the Riverside Press. 36 pp.) (continued)
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circa 1870 , drafts of preface (unpublished) to Andrew Jackson Downing's Cottage Residences of Landscape Gardening
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1871 , disposition regarding Blake's stone breaker (draft)
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1873 , "The Eucalyptus, or Fever Tree," letter to the editor, Druggist (clipping)
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1875
Notes on activities, June-Sept. 1875
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"Park," American Cyclopaedia (clipping and notes)
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circa 1875
"Observations on Future of New York" (notes)
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"Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man" (draft)
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1876
"Mr. Olmsted on Landscape Gardening," letter to the editor, Garden, 12 Aug. (clipping)
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Tree museum, draft of proposal to the Board of Commissioners, New York, N.Y.
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1877
"Landscape Gardening," Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (clipping)
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Draft of "New York State Capitol Address" read before the Senate Finance Committee, Albany, N.Y., 6 Mar.
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1879 , on Riverside Park, New York, N.Y., corrected notes
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[188?] , "The History of Streets", read before the Brookline, Mass. Club, draft
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BOX 51 REEL 44 circa 1880 , "Influence," draft and typed copy
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circa 1880-1890
On gardening, landscape architecture, etc., notes and fragments
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BOX 52 REEL 45 "Relation of Architecture to Landscape Architecture: Use and Misuse of Landscape Architecture Terms" (typed lecture to architecture students)
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Lectures to architecture students (notes and fragments)
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1881 , A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park; Prepared at the Request of the American Social Science Association and Read at Its Meeting in Saratoga, 1880 (Boston: Tolman & White, Printers. 20 pp.) (2 copies)
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1882
"Forestry Notes," The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, June 1882 (clipping)
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The Spoils of the Park; With a Few Leaves From the Deep-Laden Note-Books of "A Wholly Unpractical Man" (cover only)
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"Trees in Streets and in Parks," Sanitarian, Sept. 1882 (clipping)
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BOX 53 REEL 45 1887 , "On Gardening," Art Review (clipping)
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1888
"Description of a Plan for a Park at Pawtucket, R. I." (fragment)
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"Plan for a Small Homestead," Garden and Forest, 2 May (clipping)
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"Terrace and Veranda, Back and Front," Garden and Forest, 6 June (clipping)
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"Foreign Plants and American Scenery," letter to the editor of Garden and Forest, 24 Oct. (clipping)
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1889 , Observations on the Treatment of Public Plantations, More Especially Relating to the Use of the Axe (Boston: T. R. Marvin, Printers. 24 pp.) with J. B. Harrison
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circa 1889-1892 , "...Architectural Fitness..." (typescript)
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1890
Excerpt from "Among the Euganean Hills" by John Addington Symonds, Fortnightly Review
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"Landscape," letter to the editor, American Florist, 15 Jan.
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1891 , "Architects and Architects," American Architect, 25 July (typed copy)
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1892 , "The Proposed New Street From Holborn to the Strand" by Lewis W. Leeds, Builder, 13 Aug.
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1893 , "Frederick Law Olmsted" by M. G. Van Rensselaer, Century Magazine (clipping)
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circa 1898 , excerpts from writings on London's parks and gardens
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1903 , "The Art of Frederick Law Olmsted" by Arthur Spencer, Craftsman, Nov. 1903 (clipping)
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Address to civil engineers, draft
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"Anent Landscape Gardening," typescript
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"Appreciation of outdoor scenery...," fragment
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Bear Valley, Calif., census notes
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"The Boyhood of Frederick Law Olmsted: Some Autobiographical Passages" by Theodora Kimball
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Catalog of plants (notes)
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"Civilization not material wealth: Effect of immigration on taste"
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"A few dollars to help the cause of future freedom in Texas"
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"A Homestead: Its Constituent Parts and Essentials," fragments
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"Illustrations of the folly of cheap planting" by H. W. S. Cleveland
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"Landscape Gardening," excerpts
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