Frederick Law Olmsted

SUBJECT FILE

School Buildings & Grounds

Vassar
1868[*F.L.O's wife*]
[* Visit to [Rundoulet?] - Vaux's*]
[*B-1sts*]

OLMSTED, VAUX & CO., LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS,
No. 110 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

Aug. 4th 1868,
[*M. C. Olmsted*]
Dear Mary,
   I had a pleasant
ride all the way to RUndoulet, 
making all the 
connections, (by the Chatam
& Hudson) with punctuality -
[being?] detained
not more than five 
minutes at Chatam &
not more than ten at 
Hudson.
   I found Vaux looking
very well, in high spirits.  
Mrs Vaux looking a little
strained & eager. Marionclearly emerged from childhood 
and looking a good 
sort of girl, her baby smartness 
merely dropped off. 
Mrs. McEntee seemed anxious
about her & she was thought 
to be rather poorly, though 
mending, and it struck 
me that Vaux was leaving
her with special reluctance
feeling a little apprehensive
about her, she has had two
or three bad falls on the
head & is troubled with earache
&c. But I thought she
looked better - less nervous
than ever before.
Waterhouse Hawkins was
at the Vaux's & stayed over
Sunday. He is working for 

Green and Green has just
now applied his first
snub. [Hawkins was]
He wrote him that he understood
that he was intending
to go to Chicago to attend
the sessions of the Scientific
___________ (?) but he (Green)
thought he had much
better stick to his business
in the park. 
We went to the Vassar
College yesterday. They
have a miserable plan
to be mended, that's all.
Train detained; arrived
in town about, midnight
- slept at the Oriental.
Weather here hot and
damp - depressive.Mrs Vaux intends to see
everything that Calvert does
as you said.
I send Knapp $500 on
acct today.
[Berwyn?] & [Gering?] leave
tomorrow for Sutton-very
eager for lake-.
You cant do better then
[send?] their into camp
I think. You had better
require one personal
report, regularly every day
from some one of the party.
Yours affetly
Fred Law Olmsted.
McKean reports Grandma, very well
yesterday.