Research Catalog

Title

Life and works of Phillis Wheatley : containing her complete poetical works, numerous letters, and a complete biography of this famous poet of a century and a half ago / by G. Herbert Renfro ; also, a sketch of the life of Mr. Renfro, by Leila Amos Pendleton.

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Published by Robert L. Pendleton, 1216 You Street, 1916.

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Additional Authors

• Renfro, G. Herbert (Gloster Herbert), 1867-1894.
• Pendleton, Leila Amos, 1860-
• Pendleton, R. L. (Robert L.)

Description

112 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Enslaved women > United States > Biography
• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Correspondence
• African American women poets > 18th century > Biography
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Portraits
• Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Black author

Genre/Form

• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Publisher statement from verso of title page.
• "Phillis Wheatley's correspondence"--pages 27-31.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To my friend Arthur A. Schomburg. R.L. Pendleton. 3/2/29 [i.e. 3/2/19?] Washington, D.C." ; Inscribed: in ink on same endleaf "Doris Mathilde Chambers." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Sketch of life of G.H. Renfro -- Life of Phillis Wheatley -- Phillis Wheatley's correspondence -- Title page first edition Phillis Wheatley's poems -- Dedication of first edition Phillis Wheatley's poems -- Preface to first edition Phillis Wheatley's poems -- To Maecenas -- On virtue -- To the University of Cambridge in New England -- To the King's most excellent Majesty, 1768 -- On being brought from Africa to America -- On the death of Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769 -- On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 -- 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 -- An hymn to the morning -- An hymn to the evening -- Isaiah lxiii, 1-8 -- On recollection -- On imagination -- Funeral poems on the death of C.E., an infant of twelve months -- To Captain H―d, of the 65th Regiment -- To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's secretary of state for North America, etc. -- Ode to Neptune -- To a lady on her coming to North American 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 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, 1771 -- 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 of daily devotion, in which that duty is recommended and assisted -- On the death of J.C., an infant -- An hymn to humanity -- To the honorable T.H., Esq., on the death of his daughter -- Niobe in distress for her children slain by Appollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, book VI, and from a view of the painting by Mr. Richard Wilson -- To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works - To His Honour the Lieutenant Governor, on the death of his lady, March 24, 1773 -- A farewell to America -- A rebus, by J.B. -- An answer to a rebus, by the author of these poems.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Wheatley, P. Life and works)

OCLC

• 11461033
• NYPGR11461033-B

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784, author.

Title

Life and works of Phillis Wheatley : containing her complete poetical works, numerous letters, and a complete biography of this famous poet of a century and a half ago / by G. Herbert Renfro ; also, a sketch of the life of Mr. Renfro, by Leila Amos Pendleton.

Publisher

Washington, D.C. : Published by Robert L. Pendleton, 1216 You Street, 1916.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (accession no. B527110) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To my friend Arthur A. Schomburg. R.L. Pendleton. 3/2/29 [i.e. 3/2/19?] Washington, D.C." ; Inscribed: in ink on same endleaf "Doris Mathilde Chambers." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1850.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Renfro, G. Herbert (Gloster Herbert), 1867-1894. Sketch of the life of Phillis Wheatley.

Pendleton, Leila Amos, 1860-

Pendleton, R. L. (Robert L.), publisher.

Pendleton, R. L. (Robert L.), inscriber.

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

Chambers, Doris Mathilde, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Wheatley, P. Life and works)