"Olmsted the man belongs to his own time, but his work and words continue to have meaning today... The editors are preserving a life and a work instructive for the future as well as of the past." -- "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"
Charles E. Beveridge is series editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Charles Capen McLaughlin (1929-2005) edited The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted volume's 1 and 2.