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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896. Francis James Child papers (MS Am 1922-1922.2): Guide.Administrative Information*45M-549 *45M-584-593, *45Z-8, and *73M-94. Manuscripts presented by Mrs. Gilbert Campbell Scoggin, 11 Story Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138; received: 1945 Dec. Preferred Citation for Publication:Francis James Child Papers (MS Am 1922-1922.2). Houghton Library, Harvard University. There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Images linked to this finding aid are intended for public access and educational use. This material is owned and/or held by the Houghton Library, and is provided solely for the purpose of teaching or individual research. Any other use, including commercial reuse, mounting on other systems, or other forms of redistribution requires the permission of the curator. Return to the Table of Contents Child, born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard University in 1846. He became the Harvard Boylston professor of rhetoric, oratory, and elocution in 1851 and in 1876 became professor of English. He was known for studying, collecting, and cataloging folk ballads and compiled the authoritative work, The English and Scottish popular ballads. Return to the Table of Contents Correspondence of Francis J. Child, together with personal account books from his student years at Harvard, notebooks, journals, and commonplace books. Also includes correspondence of Child's wife, Elizabeth Ellery (Sedgwick) Child; and a daguerreotype of a group including Child and his wife. Return to the Table of Contents Organized into the following three series: bMS Am 1922: Correspondence and compositions. I. Letters to Francis James Child. II. Letters to Elizabeth Ellery (Sedgwick) Child. III. Other letters. IV. Compositions. bMS Am 1922.1: Notebooks. bMS Am 1922.2: Daguerreotype. Return to the Table of Contents |