of 1852, 107
of 1860, 196
of 1864, 237–38
of 1872, 312
Eliot, Charles, 354, 357, 370, 392, 395–96, 400, 401, 404
death of, 409
FLO’s correspondence with, 406, 407
Eliot, Charles W., 410
Ellicott, Andrew, 288, 289, 320
Ellicott, Joseph, 288
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 150–52, 155, 157, 159, 162, 222
Elliott, Ezekiel Brown, 201, 254
Ellsworth, Oliver, 48
Elm City (ship), 210
emancipation, 106, 120, 121, 191, 206
see also abolitionists
Emancipation Proclamation, 205, 215n
Emerald Necklace, the, 360
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 80, 98n, 137, 142, 190, 279, 341, 363
Emerson, William, 78, 150, 192
Emerson, William Ralph, 409
Engineer Corps, 175, 176, 184
Englishman in Kansas, The (Gladstone), 148–49
Entepfuhl, 69n
Episcopalianism, 67
Erie, Lake, 287
Erie Canal, 285
Errington, Miss, 235, 237
Essay on the Picturesque (Price), 29
Examiner (London), 141
Fairmount, 64–67, 69
Fairmount Park Commission, 308
Fair Oaks, battle of (1862), 210–11, 212
Fairstead, 351, 353, 365–66, 374, 385, 406, 409, 410, 411
Fall River, Mass., 308
farming, farms, 58–60, 69–84, 113, 114, 116
risks of, 81
scientific, 60–61, 64–66, 76, 82, 83, 86, 176
see also Sachem’s Head; Tosomock Farm
Fashion Plantation, 111, 112, 113, 120, 122, 218
Felsted, 409
Field, Alfred, 333
Field, David Dudley, 156, 223
Fillmore, Millard, 287
Finley, Clement A., 204, 206, 207
First Congregational Church, 175, 199
Fischer, William L., 361
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 95
Florida, 196
Fort Greene Park, 308
Fort Hamilton, 282, 284
Fort Sumter, 197
Fox, Warren, 50–55
France, 46, 80, 409n
colonialism of, 122
FLO in, 85, 142–43, 180, 182, 336, 337–38, 391
parks in, 164, 180, 182
see also Paris
Franklin Park, 360–64, 363
Fraser’s Magazine, 141, 143, 196
freedmen, 106, 116, 117, 120–21, 122, 148, 215
Freedmen’s Aid Union, 263–64
Frémont, John C., 215, 223, 229, 231, 241
French Renaissance style, 374, 381, 383, 399
French Revolution, 67
Front, the, 287–8, 298
Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (Downing), 66
fruit trees, 66, 74, 81, 82, 84, 92
Fry, John, 240
Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 106, 107
Fuller, Thomas, 327
Fulton, Robert, 44
funerals, 114, 367–68, 411
future, FLO’s views on, 15, 21–22, 274, 275, 296, 386
Gallaudet, Rev. Thomas Hopkins, 31, 52
gambler, FLO’s description of, 251–52
Garden and Forest, 399
Gardener, James T., 341
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 188
Garrison, William Lloyd, 32, 107
Geddes, George, 64–67, 69, 72, 75, 80, 98, 134, 355
Geddes, Maria, 67
gentility, nineteenth-century growth of, 31
George, Henry, 91
Georgia, 196, 237
FLO in, 111, 114–15, 123
German settlers, in Texas, 128–31, 133–34, 138n, 147–48
Germany:
Brace in, 85, 92, 94, 103
FLO in, 85, 93, 143, 144, 336, 337
FLO’s work in, 148
Gettysburg, battle of (1863), 220–21
Gibbs, Mount, 237
Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott, 200, 216, 223, 237
Gilpin, William, 29, 86, 181
Gladstone, Thomas, 148–49
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 219–20, 221, 226, 230, 263, 309, 338, 341, 393
FLO’s correspondence with, 228, 235, 239, 241n, 246, 247, 250, 251, 253, 256, 279
Nation and, 278, 279
Godkin, Fanny, 341
Godwin, Parke, 137, 156, 174, 393
Golden Gate Park, 275n
Good Hope, Cape of, 51
Goodloe, Daniel R., 195, 196
Goodrich, Samuel, 31
Goodwin, James, 49, 50
Gordon & Talbot, 49
Gothic Revival, 74n
Gower, Lord, 181
Graham’s, 150n
Grand Army Plaza, 273
Grant, Ulysses S., 217–18, 221, 237, 248
Grant, William H., 175, 177
Gray, Asa, 156, 341
Gray, John, 155, 162, 319
Great Britain, 43, 84–87, 148
countryside of, 85, 86–87
in Crimean War, 197, 213
drainage systems in, 84, 86, 92, 93, 159
FLO in, 85–87, 142–45, 159, 180–82, 336, 337, 390–91, 407–9
FLO’s book on, see Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
FLO’s works in, 141, 143, 148, 195–97
landscape gardening of, 29, 34, 45, 87, 93–94, 164, 173, 180–82
Great Dismal Swamp, 110
Greater New York, 281
Great Point, 72, 75
Greeley, Horace, 149, 312
Green, Andrew Haswell, 155, 157, 159, 164, 185–86, 219, 260, 276
as city comptroller, 311, 331, 332
FLO’s problems with, 186, 193–95, 197–98, 331, 332, 348, 369–70, 373
Niagara Falls and, 369–70, 373
Green, John, 52
Greensward, 163–70, 172, 182, 186, 222
Board modifications of, 173–74, 184–85
division of labor for, 169–70, 228, 369
Downing’s influence on, 165, 167, 168, 170
illusion at heart of, 166–67
Greenwood Cemetery, 45, 168, 238
Gregory VII, Pope (Hildebrand), 20–21
Grymes, James, 209, 213
Gustin, Samuel, 164, 176
Hale, Edward Everett, 97, 138–39, 141, 148, 198n
Hale, Emily Perkins, 82, 123, 138, 184n
FLO’s engagement to, 96–98, 138
Hall, William Hammond, 320
Hamilton, Alexander, 36, 155
Hamilton, James, 155, 156
Hammond, James H., 196
Hammond, William A., 206, 207
Harpers Ferry, W.Va., 190
Harper’s Monthly, 136, 137, 142, 385
Harris, Elisha, 199, 306
Hartford, Conn., 42, 69, 308, 326
described, 29–33
FLO’s childhood years in, 23–27, 29
FLO’s returns to, 27, 40, 46–49, 56–58, 63–64, 76, 82–83, 214, 314
intellectual and cultural life of, 29, 31, 83
midnineteenth-century beauty of, 32–33
Hartford Daily Courant, 101
Hartford Grammar School, 25, 27
Hartford Institute for the Insane, 317
Hartford Natural History Society, 33, 46–47, 52
Hartford Public Library, 29
Hartford Times, 30, 31
Harvard University, 238n, 341, 345, 346, 354, 368, 397, 410
Rick at, 386, 401, 402, 403
Haussmann, Baron, 180, 182
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 136
Hayden, Julia Gorham, see Richardson, Julia Hayden
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 140, 191
Hesse, Herman, 68
high school, as new institution, 25–26
Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII), 20–21
Hill, Governor, 369
Hilton Head, 205–6
History of Tom Thumb, The (Yonge),
142
Hitchcock, Sophia Stevens, 82, 83, 97–98, 142–43, 178
Holland, 336, 337
Holly-Tree Inn, The (Dickens), 142
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 341, 366
Hooker, Sir William Jackson, 180, 194, 333
Hoppin, William J., 220
Horticulturist, 65, 66
FLO’s work in, 66, 74, 92–94, 157
Walks and Talks reviewed in, 100–101
Hospital Transport Service, 208–13
hotels, Southern, 110, 111, 129
Household Words, 136, 141
House of Representatives, U.S., 207
Howard, George (Bank of California trustee), 246
Howard, George (Olmsted’s friend), 49
Howard, Mrs., boarding house of, 44
Howard, Sam, 49
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 200, 206
Howells, William Dean, 366, 393
Hudson River Bracketed Style, 65
Hull, Charlotte, see Olmsted, Charlotte Hull
Hull, Linda, see Brooks, Linda Hull
Hull, Stella, see Law, Stella Hull
humor, British, 144
Hungary, 103, 104
Hungary in 1851 (Brace), 104
Hunt, Richard Morris, 303, 374
Biltmore and, 380–81, 383, 399, 403–4
World’s Columbian Exposition and, 387–89, 393–94
Hyde Park, 333
hydrotherapy, 37
immigrants, 232
Bushnell’s views on, 253–54
FLO’s views on, 229, 251–55
German, see German settlers, in Texas
Impending Crisis of the South, The (Helper), 140, 191
Incidents of a Whaling Trip (Francis Olmsted), 48
Independent, 141
insider trading, 243
International Exhibition (1851), 93
Ireland, 85, 159
Irving, Washington, 137, 156
Italian immigrants, 229
Italian Renaissance style, 327
Italy, 143, 188, 336, 337
Ithaca, N.Y., 285
Jackson Park, 300, 386–92
Jamaica Pond, 360
James, Henry, 279
James, William, 366
James River, 208, 211, 212
Jay Cooke & Co., 315
Jefferson, Thomas, 36, 106, 148–49
Jeffersonville, Ind., 326
Jenkins, John Foster, 202, 216, 218, 223, 228, 233
Jenney, William LeBaron, 218, 298, 299, 300, 306, 388–89
John P. Jewett & Company, 150n
Johns Hopkins University, 326
Jones, Lewis, 227
Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, A (Silliman), 83
Journey in the Back Country, A (Olmsted), 149, 161, 190–91, 192, 253
reviews of, 191, 195
Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A (Olmsted), 133, 136, 138–41, 161, 190, 205
feeble commercial success of, 140
reviews of, 141, 143
Journey Through Texas, A (Olmsted), 145–48, 150, 160, 161, 219, 278
introduction to, 143, 146–47
reviews of, 147–48
Kansas, 125, 133, 148
free-soil cause in, 139
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 125
Kapp, Friedrich, 133, 188, 356
Kellersberger, Herr, 184
Kelly, John, 332, 335
Ketchum, Edward, 264
Ketchum, Morris, 223, 228, 230, 243
Ketchum, Son & Company, 243, 264
Kew Gardens, 180, 408
King, Clarence, 348
King, Starr, 234, 236
Kingsbury, Alathea Scovill, 98
Kingsbury, Frederick J., 17, 59, 96, 110, 411
Brace’s correspondence with, 104–5, 107
FLO’s correspondence with, 67, 74, 78, 82, 108, 149, 309, 310, 315, 356, 385
John Hull’s correspondence with, 18, 77
marriage of, 98
religious revival and, 63, 64
slavery debate and, 107, 116
Tosomock Farm and, 78, 79
at Yale, 61, 71
Kirkwood Land Company, 400
Knapp, Frederick Newman, 201, 209, 211, 213, 214, 216, 217, 222, 253
FLO’s correspondence with, 29–30, 228, 237, 238, 247, 248, 285, 297n, 316
Knickerbocker (ship), 210
labor, 118–19
for Central Park, 155–56, 158, 159–60, 174–75
at Mariposa Estate, 229, 231–32
Northern, 117, 118
slave, see slavery, slaves
Lacotah Company, 348, 369
La Farge, John, 307
Lake George, N.Y., 310
landscape:
of Connecticut, 34, 87
FLO’s description of, 59, 87
in Prospect Park, 273
scenic and picturesque, cult of, 29, 34, 65, 70–71, 79–82, 292
of tropics, 301
Western, 229, 236–37, 238, 257–58, 272
vs. wilderness, 237
landscape architecture:
as art, 261, 263, 364
British, 29, 34, 45, 87, 93–94, 164, 173, 180–82
building design vs., 172
in cemeteries, 22, 45
of Central Park, 158–59
Downing’s views on, 65
Elliott’s work in, 151
first use of term, 261n
FLO’s attraction to, 21
FLO’s introduction to, 29
FLO’s perception of snubbing of, 395–97
at Tosomock Farm, 79, 80
Yosemite and, 257–59
see also specific projects
Lathrop, Ariel, 377, 379
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 45, 168, 238
Law, Jonathan, 23, 25, 33, 36
Law, Stella Hull, 23, 33
Lawrence, Kans., 139
Lawrenceville School, 349, 350, 358, 369, 371
Leclerc, George Louis (Comte de Buffon), 15
Lee, Robert E., 211, 212, 237, 248
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 320–21
Le Nôtre, André, 182, 353, 384
Letterman, Jonathan, 212
“Letters from England” (Downing), 94
Liberator, 107, 141
Liberia, 120
Library of Congress, 38
Lille, FLO’s tour of, 180
Lincoln, Abraham, 28n, 196, 197, 198, 206, 256
assassination of, 248
in election of 1864, 237–38
Emancipation Proclamation and, 215n
Sanitary Commission and, 204, 206, 215
literacy, 117–18, 119, 136
Liverpool, 85, 86, 93, 94, 144, 148, 180, 337
Llewellyn Park, 163, 292
London, 32n, 85, 142–45
International Exhibition in (1851), 93
John Charles in, 333–37
Vaux in, 161
Long Branch, N.J., 280
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 136, 137, 157, 190, 191, 279, 341
Long Island Sound, 26, 34, 50, 69
Loudon, John Claudius, 180, 261n
Louisiana, 196, 303, 330
FLO in, 111–12, 113, 118–19, 122–25, 128, 132
Louisiana Purchase, 122
Low, Frederick, 238
Lowell, James Russell, 137, 191, 277, 279, 363, 366
Lucas, Mrs., 205
Ludlow, Fitz-Hugh, 236
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 83, 86, 96, 141
McCagg, Ezra B., 299
McClellan, George, 206, 208–12, 237
McEntee, Jervis, 169
Mackenzie, James Cameron, 349
McKim, Charles Follen, 307, 357, 368, 387, 388–89, 393–94, 410
McKim, James Miller, 256, 263–64, 279, 307, 312
McKim, Mead, and White, 374, 387
McLean Asylum, 410–11
MacMillan (engineer), 377
McMillan, James, 410n
MacMonnies, Frederick, 394
&
nbsp; Madison, James, 36
Madison Square Garden, 393–96
magazine publishing, 134, 136–38, 143, 144, 145, 149
Magister Ludi (Hesse), 68
Maine, 106, 285, 406–7, 409
malaria, 209, 211, 214, 305, 335, 337
Manassas Junction, battle of (1861), 200–202
Manhattan grid, 43, 192, 329, 331
drawbacks of, 328
Manning (horticulturalist), 404
Manual of the Patriotic Volunteer, on Active Service, in Regular and Irregular War, 139
Marion House, 234
Mariposa Big Tree Grove, 235–36, 238, 257, 258, 368
Mariposa Company, 223–24, 230, 240–43, 247–51, 261
stock of, 230, 238, 241, 243, 264
Mariposa County, 237–38
Mariposa Estate, 223, 225–43, 248–51, 265, 275–76
cost-cutting measures at, 231–32
FLO’s report on, 230–31
Mariposa Weekly Gazette, 237
Marshall, William, 83
Martin, Howard, 227, 231, 242, 336
Maryland, 214, 215n, 326
Mason Brothers, 190, 228
Massachusetts, 106
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 280
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 45
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 354, 368
Mead, William Rutherford, 357
Meade, George G., 221
medicine, nineteenth-century, 37
Meigs, Montgomery, 21–22, 204, 210, 308
Melville, Herman, 91, 136, 137, 149
Methodism, 66, 67
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 313, 373, 380
Mexicans, in California, 251, 252
Mexican War, 106
Mexico, 126, 131, 132
Michelangelo, 57
Michigan, Lake, 300, 301, 302, 386, 387, 390
middle names, as genteel fashion, 23
Mill, John Stuart, 196, 316
Miller, Edward, 243, 245, 246, 250, 262, 263, 276
Miller, J. W., 149
Miller & Curtis, 149, 150, 151, 161, 163, 192
Millet, Francis D., 393
Mills, Darius, 240, 241, 245–46
Mississippi, 123, 196
Mississippi River, 218
Missouri, 106, 139, 215, 217
Missouri Compromise (1820), 105–6, 125, 148
Miss Rockwell’s school, 27, 29
Modern Painters (Ruskin), 82
Monds, Maria, 56
Montana, 348, 369
Montmorency Falls, 277, 326
Montreal, Mount Royal (Mont Réal) in, 13–14, 321–25, 322, 326, 350, 355
Moraine Farm, 359, 380
Morning Courier & New-York Enquirer, 174
Morrisania, 328, 329–30
Morris Cove, Conn., 149–52
Morton, Peter, 49
Mould, Jacob Wrey, 169, 175–76, 184, 199, 313, 318, 373
Mountain View Cemetery, 238, 243, 244, 245, 262, 263, 269
Mount Auburn Cemetery, 45
Mount Royal (Mont Réal), 13–14, 321–25, 322, 350, 355
Mount Saint Vincent, Central Park, 187–89
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 57
Mr. Perkins’s academy, 26
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