Reviews
A fascinating new door stop of a book... [whose]revealing glimpses into the mind of America's greatest landscape architect take on fresh relevance.
It goes without saying—yet it must be said—the editors David Schuyler and Gregory Kaliss, with Jeffrey Schlossberg as assistant editor, continue to perform a massive task... There are indeed hoards of materials here that will be perhaps not just looted but used and cited punctiliously by scholars and modern architects.
The excellence of the scholarship... as well as [the] comprehensiveness is indisputable. Needless to say, those deeply interested in the works of Olmsted would be remiss indeed not to at least consider the acquisition of these volumes for their respective permanent collections.
Essential. Academic and general readers; practicing landscape professionals.
This is the last volume of an amazing scholarly project that began in 1972... Olmsted and his firm produced an extraordinary amount of correspondence (in today's world it is hard to imagine such length and thought) of which a huge amount surviving in several archives has been mined for these volumes. The level of scholarship, footnotes, and explanation is a model for any scholar.
Once again, the editors of the Olmsted Papers have collected a treasure ripe for looting.
Book Details
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Policy
Short Titles Used in Citations
Biographical Directory
Chapter 1. April 1890-August 1890
Chapter 2. August 1890-December 1890
Chapter 3. December
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Policy
Short Titles Used in Citations
Biographical Directory
Chapter 1. April 1890-August 1890
Chapter 2. August 1890-December 1890
Chapter 3. December 1890-March 1891
Chapter 4. April 1891-October 1891
Chapter 5. November 1891-April 1892
Chapter 6. April 1892-August 1892
Chapter 7. September 1892-May 1983
Chapter 8. May 1983-November 1893
Chapter 9. December 1893-May 1894
Chapter 10. June 1894-November 1894
Chapter 11. December 1894-May 1895
Chapter 12. May 1985-December 1985
Appendix 1. Selected Undated Writings
Appendix 2. Chronology of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1890-1895
Appendix 3. List of Textual Alterations
Index of Plant Materials
General Index