Children's writings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered collections of literary works or individual literary works written by children under 15 years of age. Works on child authors as a class of persons are entered under Child authors. Collections of works published for children, including literary works, nonliterary works, or both, are entered under Children's literature. Works on books for children considered as physical objects are entered under Children's books. Works on the reading interests of children or books recommended for children, are entered under Children--Books and reading.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ballitore papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 50
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, mainly between members of the Leadbeater family, including Mary Leadbeater and her husband William, and the Shackleton family, including Mary Leadbeater's parents, Elizabeth and Richard Shackleton, her sister, Sarah, and her grandfather, Abraham Shackleton. There is also correspondence with many other relatives, including Mary's cousin, Margaret Pike. Many letters were written by children. There is extensive correspondence between Mary and the poet Melesina...
Dates:
1709-1827
Bateman family papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 32
Overview:
Correspondence between family members. Includes letters between Rebekah Clegg Bateman and her husband, Thomas Bateman, her son, William Bateman, her father, Arthur Clegg, and her sister, Elizabeth Clegg Wilson; letters between Rebekah Bateman and her brothers, William and Thomas Bateman; one letter from Thomas Bateman to his son, Thomas; and letters between William Bateman and his brother, Thomas, and his father, Thomas. Many of the letters are written by and to children at school. Also...
Dates:
1756-1812
Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Overview:
Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers publishing...
Dates:
1640-2001