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Poems on miscellaneous subjects
- Title
- Poems on miscellaneous subjects / by Frances Ellen Watkins.
- Author
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Merrihew & Thompson, printers, Lodge Street, north side of Pennsylvania Bank, 1857.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. E. W. Poems on miscellaneous subjects. 1857) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 48 p.; 17 cm
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poems – 1854.
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- Preface signed W.L.G. [i.e. William Lloyd Garrison].
- In printed paper wrappers.
- Signatures: 1-4⁶.
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in pencil on recto of upper wrapper "Maranda [S.?] Tiffany Sep. 26/87." ; Inscribed in pencil on recto of upper wrapper "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- Preface -- The syrophenician woman -- The slave mother -- Bible defence of slavery -- Eliza Harris -- Ethiopia -- The drunkard's child -- The slave auction -- The revel -- That blessed hope -- The dying Christian -- Report -- Advice to the girls -- Saved by faith -- Died of starvation -- A mother's heroism -- The fugitive's wife -- The contrast -- The prodigal's return -- Eva's farewell -- The Tennessee hero -- Free labor -- Lines -- The dismissal of Tyng -- Miscellaneous writings: Christianity -- The colored people in America -- Breathing the air of freedom.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. E. W. Poems on miscellaneous subjects. 1857)
- OCLC
- 36785721
- Author
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.
- Title
- Poems on miscellaneous subjects / by Frances Ellen Watkins.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Merrihew & Thompson, printers, Lodge Street, north side of Pennsylvania Bank, 1857.
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 811-H (accession no. B527098) inscribed: in pencil on recto of upper wrapper "Maranda [S.?] Tiffany Sep. 26/87." ; Inscribed in pencil on recto of upper wrapper "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-H has impression statement on title page: "Tenth Thousand." NN
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- African American poets.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.Merrihew & Thompson, printer.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. E. W. Poems on miscellaneous subjects. 1857)