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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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which he devoted to visiting his relatives,old and young, to making notes on the pioneer voyages to thecoast of Maine and the early trading-posts along that shore(notes which he first used in a paper read to the ChamplainSociety at a meeting held at his office February 9,1887), andto occasional work on a descriptive catalogue of the plants inthe Arnold Arboretum. To write for the press was a part of his plan of life; for hehad accepted in some measure the opinion expressed repeat-edly by Mr. Olmsted and his father that he had a gift ofexpression which ought to be utilized. Thus, Mr. Olmstedwrote to him on October 28, 1886, a letter to be received onlanding from his homeward voyage, in which the followingpassage occurred: I know that you will feel more than mostmen what you owe to your profession, — that is, to thecause. I mean (something) beyond the zealous pursuit ofit. In one way I wish to give you my opinion, derived fromreading your letters chiefly, that you are able to serve it
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JET. 27) FIRST PLANTING DESIGN 207 better than any living English-writing man. . . . You willnot think it flattery, if I say that you can easily give the pub-lic what the public most needs much better than any otherman now writing. In an earlier letter Mr. Olmsted hadwritten: I have seen no such justly critical notes as yourson landscape architecture matters from any traveller for ageneration past. You ought to make it a part of your schemeto write for the public, a little at a time if you please, butmethodically, systematically. It is a part of j^our professionalduty to do so. The first private place for which Charles made a designwas the estate of Mr. John Parkinson at Bourne, on Buz-zards Bay, Massachusetts. The house was already builtclose to the shore, and about it was a bare, wind-swept, sandyfield of pleasing surface, covered with an old sod and lowbushes. From the front door of the house one lookedstraight into the broad stable door, four hundred feet away.Charles planted at v

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