14 Frederick Law Olmsted 



Report on proposed city park for Albany, O. V. & 

 Co., printed. 



Feb. 8 Plan to C. E. Norton, Harvard University, for 

 connecting walks through University grounds, 

 vicinity Oxford Street and Norton property. 



A u g ' t To see Barry and " learn what had become of the 

 Rochester Park project." Also with Calvert Vaux 

 visited Vassar College to give advice as to plan. 



Aug. 14 "I have a business invitation today from Buffalo 

 and shall splice it into the Chicago expedition in 

 some way." Aug. 25, addressed public meeting 

 in Buffalo in regard to Park project. 



Aug. 29 Mentions jobs in letter to C. Vaux: Buffalo, 

 Brooklyn, Chicago-Riverside. 



1869: Brooklyn park work very absorbing. (H. W. S. 

 Cleveland employed by Mr. Olmsted on the 

 Brooklyn work at this time.) Riverside going on. 

 Preliminary report for Buffalo park printed. 



(About) Conversation at Cataract House with Mr. William 

 S e p ' r Dorsheimer and others regarding the preservation 

 of Niagara Falls. 



1870: Reports : on park for New Britain ; to Mr. J. S. 

 Blatchford (Boston) on Needham Hundreds (suit- 

 ability for residential land subdivision) ; to Maine 

 Agricultural College (printed); and on park site 

 for Hartford (probably 1870). 



Address before American Social Science Associa- 

 tion at Lowell Institute, Boston: Public Parks 

 and the Enlargement of towns (printed). 



