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 be- 

 fore Boston Society of Landscape Architects, 191 6: 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 i860 . .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, Apple- 

 ton's New American Cyclopedia, 1 861 . . . 125 



A Letter from F. L. Olmsted to a Park Commissioner of 

 Rochester, N. Y., 1888, regarding the Status of Land- 

 scape Architecture in the United States . . .127 



