Research Catalog

Title

Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave : dedicated to the friends of the Africans.

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Publication

Boston : Light & Horton, 1 & 3 Cornhill. Samuel Harris, printer, 1835.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Odell, Margaretta Matilda.
• Harris, Samuel (Printer)
• Light and Horton, publisher.
• Pendleton's Lithography, lithographer.

Description

viii, [1], 10-114 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port.; 15 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley. First published in London, from the original manuscript, by Arch. Bell, Aldgate. 1773

Subject

• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Portraits
• African Americans > Biography
• African American women poets > Biography

Note

• Printed paper label on cover: "Memoirs and poems of Phillis Wheatley. Second edition."
• Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley signed: "Pendleton. Boston." With imprint: "Boston. Light & Horton."
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by Light & Horton, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Memoir."--p. [9]-37. By Margaretta Matilda Odell.
• "Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley. First published in London, from the original manuscript, by Arch. Bell, Aldgate. 1773."--p. [39]-110, with a special title page.
• Publishers' advertisement, p. [111]-114.

Indexed In (note)

• Checklist of American imprints

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction -- Memoir -- Dedication -- Preface -- Mr. Wheatley's letter to the publisher -- To the public -- Poems: To Maecenas -- On virtue -- On being brought from Africa to America -- To the University of Cambridge, in New England -- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty -- On the death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell -- On the death of the Rev. George Whitefield -- On the death of a young lady of five years of age -- On the death of a young gentleman -- To a lady, on the death of her husband -- Goliath of Gath -- Thoughts on the works of Providence -- To a lady, on the death of three relations -- To a clergyman, on the death of his lady -- Hymn to the morning -- Hymn to the evening -- Isaiah, 63d chap. 1st and 8th verses -- On recollection -- On imagination -- A funeral poem on the death of C.E., an infant of twelve months -- To Captain H—d -- To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth -- Ode to Neptune, on Mrs. W—'s voyage to England -- To a lady, on her coming to North America with her son, for the recovery of her health -- To a lady, on her remarkable preservation in a hurricane, in North Carolina -- To a lady and her children, on the death of her son and their brother -- To a gentleman and a lady, on the death of the lady's brother and sister, and a child of the name of Avis, aged one year -- On the death of Dr. Samuel Marshall -- To a gentleman, on his voyage to Great Britain, for the recovery of his health -- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, on reading his sermons on daily devotion, in which that duty is recommended and assisted -- On the death of J.C., an infant -- A hymn to humanity -- To the Hon. T.H. Esq., on the death of his daughter -- Niobe in distress for her children slain by Apollo -- To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works -- To His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, on the death of his lady -- A farewell to America -- A rebus -- Answer to the rebus.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Wheatley, P. Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley)

OCLC

• 3861018
• NYPGR3861018-B

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Title

Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave : dedicated to the friends of the Africans.

Imprint

Boston : Light & Horton, 1 & 3 Cornhill. Samuel Harris, printer, 1835.

Edition

Second edition.

Indexed In:

Checklist of American imprints, 35369

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (accession no. B547512) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-6398.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Odell, Margaretta Matilda.

Light and Horton, publisher.

Harris, Samuel (Printer), printer.

Pendleton's Lithography, lithographer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added Title Page Title

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley. First published in London, from the original manuscript, by Arch. Bell, Aldgate. 1773

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Wheatley, P. Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley)