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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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himself, anddo business and give orders in a manner which satisfiedthe interested persons, and led to success in a somewhatcomplicated undertaking. He saw that his authority wasrespected, and that the participants all enjoyed the campand did some serious work. His previous experience on theyacht of course helped him in the camp; but the camp wasdecidedly the more complex and difficult thing to manage.At the time of the first camp, he had just finished his Junioryear in college. It will subsequently appear that the plan ofthis enterprise resembled in certain respects plans he after-ward made for work in connection with the MetropolitanParks about Boston. He began to exhibit at this time aquality which was of great value to him in his professionallife, — he showed that decision, and that persistence in aplan once conceived, which prevent waste of time for subor-dinates. In spite, however, of the increase of self-confidence whichcame to him from these summer camps of 1880 and 1881, he
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,et. 21) THE HOUSE AT MT. DESERT 27 remembered in after years that when camp broke up inAugust, 1881, and he joined his father and mother in theirnew house at Northeast Harbor, he there had days of min-gled exaltation and dejection. A flood of thought and feel-ing, such as he had never experienced before, swept overhim. His head was full of memories and dreams, of fearfulhopes, dreads, and pains; the beauty and the wonder ofGods earthly paradise burst upon him like a holy vision, andthe depths of the hell on earth opened at his feet. The new house at Mt. Desert had resulted from his advice.When his father and mother returned from Europe in lateSeptember, 1880, Charles said to them: If you really wishto build a house at Mt. Desert, you had better examine thecoast from our camp-ground on Somess Sound to Seal Har-bor. Somewhere on that line you will find a site that willsuit you, — a site with beautiful views of sea and hills, goodanchorage, fine rocks and beach, and no flats. The fath

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