urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00819 Children Family: An Inventory of Their Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, Harry Ransom Center, 2011 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 22 August 2011 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Children Family Children Family Collection 1774-1850 2 boxes (.63 linear feet) Includes poetry by George Children (1742-1818) and poetry and a travel journal by his son John George Children (1777-1852), as collected by Anna Children Atkins (1799-1871). Anna Atkins' father and grandfather were both English scientists and she herself was a botanist and photographer. English Manuscript Collection MS-0778 Access:

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Container List Works: 1.1 Children, George, 1742-1818. Autograph poetry, handwritten manuscript, approximately 170 pages, 1774-1818. Collected and arranged in this volume by his granddaughter... Anna Children Atkins, 1858. 2.1 Children, John George, 1777-1852. Journal of a tour in the United States of America, 1802, handwritten manuscript, 196 pages, undated. In the hand of Anna Children Atkins. Partially published in Memoir of J. G. Children, esq. .. by Anna Atkins, 1853. 1.2 Children, John George, 1777-1852. Poetry, etc. by my beloved father John George Children, esq., signed handwritten manuscript, 47 pages, 1825-1850. Collected in love and reverence by his grateful & sorrowing child A. A. (Anna Atkins).