Speeches and Writings, 1839-1903

Though most famous as a landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted was a writer all his life, from early personal journal entries, journalism, travel accounts, autobiographical writing, and published books, to later treatises, proposals, business records, project reports, lectures, and articles on landscapes, gardens, horticulture, design, parks, urban planning, and sanitation and public health.  Many of these were crafted to describe, foretell, or persuade. The Speeches and Writings series of his personal papers include handwritten, typewritten, galley proof, and printed copies of speeches, lectures, articles, essays, reports, and books with notes and other material by Frederick Law Olmsted and others, as collected by him, drafted, or transcribed. The materials are arranged chronologically.