ABSTRACT
He concluded with an expression of the endearing direct feeling which he never tried to disguise: “I enjoy all your letters exceedingly. Pray let us hear as much from you as you can afford.”3 Olmsted had grown fond of Charles Eliot. In his travels abroad, the young man had seemed to enjoy tracing out the course Olmsted had prescribed and had then gone on to open vistas for himself. He had an exquisite kind of courtesy, proper from pupil to teacher. For Mr. Olmsted, he hunted up and found Humphrey Repton’s village house and had a photographer take a picture of it. Olmsted had expressed a desire to possess such a photograph.
