36 Frederick Law Olmsted 



Article on Mr. Olmsted by Mrs. Van Rensselaer 

 published in the Century Magazine with Mr. Olm- 

 sted's consent and based on information which he 

 mainly furnished. 



J a n ' y Sudden death of Harry Codman, on whom Mr. 

 Olmsted had "thrown a good deal" of the World's 

 Fair work, made it necessary for Mr. Olmsted "to 

 jump in and shoulder the Chicago work with others 

 for a time, and so manage them that with good 

 luck nobody complained and I was even myself 

 not extremely dissatisfied with the results." 



F e b ' y Charles Eliot taken into partnership with F. L. 

 Olmsted & Co. On March 15 the firm name was 

 changed to Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. 



Feb. 17 Writes to J. C. Olmsted that he considers of major 

 importance the following jobs: Boston parks, 

 Boston Metropolitan parks (brought in by Charles 

 Eliot), Columbian Exposition, Biltmore estate, 

 Bay Ridge Parkway in Brooklyn, the parks in 

 Louisville, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Rochester, 

 Buffalo, the two Newport places, Lenox, Mon- 

 mouth County place, N. J. He adds "I wish that 

 we could drop the three last and everything else. " 

 ... " I do think that we shall have to decide on 

 throwing up a lot of our business. I am not to be 

 depended on (Mr. Olmsted was then nearly seventy- 

 one years old) . . . Common prudence requires 

 that you should lay out your course not counting 

 on me." From this time on Mr. Olmsted declined 

 personal responsibility for all private work, count- 

 ing Biltmore because of its magnitude a semi- 

 public undertaking. 



