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• Trabajos de o acerca de Francis James Child en Internet Archive
• Works by Francis James Child en LibriVox (audiolibros en dominio público)
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• Project Gutenberg el texto de The English and Scottish Ballads está disponible en diversos formatos: Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Volume 4.

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