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Letters and Memoranda
Andrews, Jaques and Rantoul to Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. 18 September
1895.
Olmsted Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress.
J.P. Dawson, Report of Visit, Brookline High School. 3 June 1938.
Olmsted Associates
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Cora Codman Ely, telephone message, 11May 1927. Olmsted Associates
Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Mrs. Alan Cunningham, telephone message, 28 September 1934. Olmsted
Associates
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Henry Gallagher, report of visit to Mrs. Ely, 12 May 1927. Olmsted
Associates Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
G.E. Harney to F.L. Olmsted. 16th, 188?. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., memo to file, 25 October 1906. Olmsted
Associates Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
483
______. To Cora Codman Ely, 16 May 1927. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
F.L. Olmsted to Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. 15 October1891. Olmsted
Associates
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
J.C. Olmsted, memo to file, 10 January 1894. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
______., memo to file, 7 June 1896. Olmsted Associates Papers, Manuscript
Division,
Library of Congress.
______., memo to file, 27 June 1898. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
______., ? 17 February 1904. Olmsted Associates Papers, Manuscript
Division,
Library of Congress.
______., memo to file, 6 January 1905. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to Moses Williams. 1 February 1894. Olmsted
Associates
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to George F. Clarke. 14 September 1895.
Olmsted
Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to William H. Lincoln. 19 August 1895.
Olmsted
Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
484
Olmsted Associates to Francis J. Oakes, Jr.. 16 September 1938. Olmsted
Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Parish Clerk to Olmsted Brothers, 24 April 1907. Olmsted Associates
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Mr. Prouty to Mr. Whiting, telephone message, 6 October 1936. Olmsted
Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Mrs. Schlesinger to F.L. Olmsted, “Nahant, Sunday, n.d. Olmsted
Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
George F. Shepley to C.A. Coolidge. 19 December 1886. Frederick Law
Olmsted Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Miss Julia H. Shepley to Mrs. L. Smith Larkin. 29 January 1880. Frederick
Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
A.A. Shurtleff to file, 28 October 1902. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
______. to file, 4 November 1902. Olmsted Associates Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
E.C. Whiting, Report of Conference, 27, 28 August 1928. Olmsted
Associates Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
______. To Sewell Cutler, 1 February 1929. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
A.P. Wyman, memo to file, 9 April 1901. Olmsted Associates Papers,
Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress.
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486