30 Frederick Law Olmsted 



F e b ' y Sounded in regard to advice to Canadian Com- 

 missioner of Niagara. (Letter of advice sent in 

 August.) 



Apr. 20 Appointed at a meeting of Board, Department of 

 Public Parks of New York City, Landscape Archi- 

 tect Advisory to the Board. Subsequently visits 

 made and advice given mainly in regard to Morn- 

 ingside and Riverside Parks. Connection sus- 

 pended by Mr. Olmsted, July 1887. General Plan 

 for Morningside Park, with Calvert Vaux, printed. 

 Received check July 5, for "consultation as to 

 Riverside etc. last year." 



O c t ' r Trip to California in connection with the develop- 

 ment of Leland Stanford Jr. University. 



D e c ' r Report in letter to chairman of the Park Com- 

 mission, St. Catherine's, Ontario, for Montebello 

 Park. 



1888: Major public work, for parks of Buffalo and 

 Rochester, N. Y.; Leland Stanford Jr. University; 

 park system report (with J. C. Olmsted) for Paw- 

 tucket, R. I. Advice or plans given for Redstone 

 Mining town, and land subdivisions at Brookline 

 (Corey Hill), Chestnut Hill, Readville, and Swamp- 

 scott, Mass., Newport, R. I., Buffalo, and several 

 other places, and for proposed hotel at Lake Suna- 

 pee ; also for a large number of private estates and 

 for Groton and Lawrenceville Schools. Requests 

 for designing two cemeteries refused. 



A u g ' t Engaged in preliminary discussion of proposed 

 Biltmore estate for Mr. George W. Vanderbilt, at 

 Asheville, N. C. Survey begun in October. 



