12 Frederick Law Olmsted 



Jul. 26 Notified of election as General Secretary of Ameri- 

 can Freedmen's Union. Refused. 



Aug. 31 Proposes to accept Central Park appointment of 

 which he has just "last night received word from 

 Vaux" (telegraph out of order) and to resign from 

 managership of Mariposa Estates. 



S e p' r Advising on park for San Francisco. 



Olmsted & Vaux appointed to design the Brooklyn 

 Park. 



Sep. 28 Writes to C. Vaux: "I shall bring work enough to 

 keep Miller busy for fully a month after arrival, I 

 think. I only work out the park plans crudely 

 here, so as to have your help on it. The profit of 

 it I intend to share with you also to put O. & V. 

 to the engraved cemetery plan if you approve. 

 This latter also to be finished in New York." 



Nov. 17 Officially selected to report to the Board of Super- 

 visors a plan for a public park for San Francisco. 



Nov. 22 Arrived with family in New York from California. 



/ 

 1866: Report upon a Projected Improvement of the 



Estate of the College of California at Berkeley, 



Olmsted, Vaux & Co., printed. 



Report on Columbia Institute for the Deaf and 

 Dumb, Olmsted, Vaux & Co., printed, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Pamphlet : A Few Things to be thought of before 

 proceeding to plan buildings for the National 

 Agricultural College, printed. 



