Research Catalog

Title

Poems and letters : first collected edition / Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters) ; edited by Chas. Fred. Heartman ; with an appreciation by Arthur A. Schomburg.

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Publication

[New York] : Four hundred copies printed for Chas. Fred. Heartman, New York, [1915]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heartman, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1883-1953.
• Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.

Description

111, [1] p. : port.; 25 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

Heartman's historical series ; no. 8

Uniform Title

Heartman's historical series ; no. 8

Alternative Title

• Phillis Wheatley poems and letters
• Letters and poems of Phillis Wheatley
• Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters) poems and letters

Subjects

• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Portraits
• Black author
• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Correspondence
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half title.
• Author statement for Phillis Wheatley precedes title statement on title page.
• Schomburg's "Appreciation", p. 7-19, signed at end: Arthur A. Schomburg, Secretary Negro Society for Historical Research, Yonkers, N.Y.
• 9 copies printed on Japan vellum paper, 40 copies printed on Fabriano handmade paper, 350 copies printed on Ben Day paper. cf. title page versos.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of second free endleaf [in Schomburg's hand] "Author's Copy." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: in ink on frecto of third free endleaf "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

[Appreciation by Arthur A. Schomburg] -- Letters written by Phillis Wheatley. (First published in the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings for 1863-1864) -- Poems: To the University of Cambridge, in New England (1767) ; To the King's Most Excellent Majesty (1768) ; On the death of Rev. Dr. Sewell (1769) ; On the death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1770) ; To a lady on the death of her husband ; On the death of Dr. Samuel Marshall (1771) ; To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady ( 1772) ; Thoughts on the works of Providence ; Ode to Neptune (1772) ; To His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, on the death of his lady, March 24, 1773 ; A farewell to America (1773) ; His Excellency, General Washington ; On Major General Lee (1776) ; Liberty and peace (1784) ; To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq. on the death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard (1773) ; To the Honorable T.H., Esq., on the death of his daughter ; A hymn to humanity ; To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, on reading his sermons on daily devotion, in which that duty is recommended and assisted ; To a gentleman on his voyage to Great Britain for the recovery of his health ; To a lady and her children, on the death of her son and their brother ; To a lady on her remarkable preservation in a hurricane in North Carolina ; To a lady on her coming to North America with her son, for the recovery of her health ; To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's principal secretary of state for North America, etc. ; To Captian H—d, of the 65th Regiment ; A funeral poem on the death of C.E., an infant of twelve months ; On imagination ; An elegy sacred to the memory of Dr. Samuel Cooper (1784) ; On recollection ; Isaiah LXIII: 1-8 ; A hymn to the morning ; A hymn to the evening ; To a clergyman on the death of his lady ; To a lady on the death of three relations ; On the death of a young gentleman ; On the death of a young lady of five years of age ; To Maecenas ; On virtue ; On being brought from Africa to America ; A rebus, by J.B. ; An answer to the rebus, by the author of these poems ; Niobe in distress for her children slain by Apollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, book VI, and from a view of the painting of Mr. Richard Wilson ; Goliath of Gath -- Proposals. For printing by subscriptions a volume of poems & letters on various subjects, dedicated to the Right Hon. Benjamin Franklin, Esq.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Wheatley, P. Poems and letters)

LCCN

15022732

OCLC

2040272

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Title

Poems and letters : first collected edition / Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters) ; edited by Chas. Fred. Heartman ; with an appreciation by Arthur A. Schomburg.

Imprint

[New York] : Four hundred copies printed for Chas. Fred. Heartman, New York, [1915]

Series

Heartman's historical series ; no. 8

Heartman's historical series ; no. 8

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (copy 2) (accession no. B547519) inscribed: in ink on recto of second free endleaf [in Schomburg's hand] "Author's Copy." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (copy 2) in copy "No. 5 of nine copies printed on Japan Vellum Paper." NN

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (copy 4) (accession no. B547533) inscribed: in ink on frecto of third free endleaf "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (copy 4) in copy "No. 19 of forty copies printed on Fabriano Handmade Paper." NN

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1890. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Heartman, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1883-1953.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.

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

Cover Title

Phillis Wheatley poems and letters

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Wheatley, P. Poems and letters)