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A SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS
Edited by

CHARLES

F.

HEARTMAN
II

VOLUME

AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY

By

ARTHUR

A.

SCHOMBURG

CHARLES NEW

F.

HEARTMAN
1916

YORK,

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CHECKLIST
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ARTHUR

A.

SCHOMBURG

CHARLES NEW

F.

HEARTMAN

YORK, 1916

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:

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41

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45

BIBLIOGRAPHY
of the Poetical

Works

of

PHILLIS

WHEATLEY

(Copyrighted by Charles F. Heartman.)

of that celebrated Divine, and emithe Reverend and learned George WhiteHonourable the Countess of Huntingdon, from this transitory State, to dwell in the celestial Realms of BHss on Lord's-Day 30th of September, 1770, when he was seiz'd with a Fit of the Asthma, at Newbury-Port, near Boston,

An elegiac poem, on the nent Servant of Jesus Christ, Held, Chaplain to the Right &c., &c. Who made his Exit
New-England.

Death

In which is a Condolatory Address to His truly noble Benefactress the worthy and pious Lady Huntingdon and the Orphan. Children in Georgia, who, with many Thousands are left, by the Death of this great Man, to lament the Loss of a Father, Friend, and Benefactor. By Phillis, A Servant Girl, of 17 years of Age, belonging to Mr. She has been but 9 Years in this Country from J. Wheatley, of Boston Africa. Boston: Printed and Sold by Ezekiel Russell, in Queen-street, And John Boyles, in Marlboro'-street (1770). 8 p. 12. N. Y. H. S. L. O. C. Advertised as "This Day was published" in Massachusetts Spy of Oct.
;
:

11, 1770.

(Woodcut)
Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, The Late Reverend, And pious George Whitefteld, Chaplain to the right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c., &c. Who made his Exit from this transitory State, to dwell in the Celestial Realms of bliss, on Lord's-day, 30th of September, 1770, when he was seiz'd with a fit of the asthma, at Newbury-Port, near Boston, in New-England. In which a condolatory address to his truly noble benefactress the worthy and pious Lady Huntingdon, and the orphanchildren in Georgia who, with many thousands, are left, by the death of this great man, to lament the Loss of a father, friend, and benefactor. By Phillis, a servant girl of 17 years of age, belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley, of Boston: and has been but 9 years in this country from Africa. (Boston:) Sold by Ezekiel Russell in Queen-Street, and John Boyles, in Marlboro'-Street (1770).

An

leaf folio.

L. C. P.

Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield, wrote servant girl of 17 years of age, belonging to Mr. Wheatley, of Boston. New- York. Printed and sold by Samuel Inslee and Anthony Car, 1770. No copy could be located, but it is advertised as "just published" in the New York Gazette and Weekly Post Boy of October 30, 1770.

An

by

Phillis, a

Phillis's
1

Poem on

the Death of Mr. Whitefield.

Garland.

(Boston 1770.)
with

Folio. A. A. S. Contains also: "Bedlam

p.

Together

The

Spinning-

Wheel."
47

An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that celebrated Divine and eminent servant of Jesus Christ the Rev. Geo. Whitefield. By Phillis Wheatley. Philadelphia William Goddard, 1770.
:

Copied from Hildeburn and Evans.

No

copy located.

Ah ode of verses on the much lamented Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, Late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon; who departed this Life, at Newberry near Boston in New England, on the Thirtieth of September, 1770, in the Fifty-seventh Year of his Age. Compos'd in America by a Negro Girl Seventeen Years of Age, and sent over to a Gentleman of Character in London.
[At End.]
Printed and sold for the benefit of a poor family burnt out a_ few weeks since near Shoreditch Church, that lost all they possessed, having nothing insur'd._ Price a Penny apiece, or 5s. a Hundred to those that sell them again. Broadside, small folio, printed in double column.
_

An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that celebrated Divine, George By Phillis, a servant Girl belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of WhiteHeld. Boston. (Boston 1770.)
1 leaf.

The same

Folio. P.H.S. as No. 11 without printer's

name and

therefore probably a

different or second issue.

Heaven the Residence of the Saints. A Sermon Occasioned by the sudden and much lamented Death of the Rev. George Whitefield, A. M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon. Delivered at the Thursday Lecture at Boston, in America, October 11, 1770. By Ebenezer Pemberton, D.D. Pastor of a Church in Boston. To which is added, An Elegiac Poem on his Death, By Phillis, A Negro Girl, of Seventeen Years of Age, Belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of Boston. Boston, Printed: London, Reprinted, For E. and C. Dilly in the Poultry; And Sold at the Chapel in Tottenham-Court Road, And at the Tabernacle near Moorfields. M.DCC.LXXI [Price Sixpence.]
31 and
1

pp. advertisement.

8.

P.U.

B.A.

B.U.

J.C.B.

Harvard.

N.Y.P.L. M.H.S.

Y.U.
A.A.S.

The Poem occupies pp. 29-31. The Boston Edition of Pemberton's Sermon does not
Poem.

contain the

To Miss Leonard on
ley.

the Death of her Husband.

By

Phillis

Wheat-

Boston (1771.)
1

leaf.

Folio.

P.H.S.

A Poem on
1772?).

Providence, written by a young female slave.

(Boston?

105-110 pp. 8*. B.P. . In a bound volume of miscellaneous pamphlets Library, contains 3 leaves of some old magazine,

vv the Boston Public whose title has not

,.

been

identified.

49

To

Wheatley.

the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the Death of his Lady. Poem by Phillis [Dated:] Boston, June 16, 1772. (Boston: 1772.) 1 page. Folio. N.Y.H.S.

To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard; Esq., on the Death of Thankful! Leonard. Boston 1773.
1

Mrs.

leaf.

Folio.

P.H.S.

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston,
land.
Portrait.
124, (3) pp.

By
in

Phillis

New

London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston. MDCCLXXIIL
and
1

sold

Engby

P.H.S.

A.A.S.

B.U.

N.Y.H.S.
copies of this page.

Some
the
title

page advertisement. 8. Y.U. N.Y.P. B.P. Y.C.B. L.O.C. M.H.S. N.L. Harvard. edition have authors autograph on the back of

Serious, and Moral Subjects. By Phillis Wheatley, to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. The Second Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for J. French, Bookseller, No. 164, Fenchurch-street, and may be had of the Booksellers in Town and Country. Price, one shilling and sixpence sewed. 124 (3) pp. and 1 page advertisement. Portrait. 8. 2 copies located.

Poems on Comic,

Negro Servant

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Wheatley. Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1774. Taken from Hildeburn. No copy located and a doubtful

By
title.

Phillis

(Pennsylvania Malgazine or American Monthly Museum for April 1776 Page 193.) "The following Letters and Verses were written by the famous Phillis Wheatley, the African Poetess, and presented to his Excellency Geo. Washington."
Sir:
I

have taken the freedom,

servant,
Phillis

Your Excellency's most obedient humble

Providence, Oct. 26, 1775. His Excellency Gen. Washington.

Wheatley.

(Poem
8.

follows). L.O.C. P.U.

N.Y.P.L.

P.H.S.

A.A.S.

An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of that great Divine, the Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, Who departed this Life December 29, By Phillis Peters. Boston: Printed and Sold by E. 1783, .^tatis 59. Russell, in Essex-Street near Liberty-Pole. M.DCC.LXXXIV.
8 pp.
4.

B.A. A.A.S.

M.H.S.
51

N.Y.H.S.

Liberty and Peace,

Poem.

By
*^"'"

Phillis Peters.

M,DCC LXXXIV
4 pp.
4.

^^^^""
Harvard.

^*
A.A.S.

^^^^

'"

Boston: Printed Marlborough-Street.

N.Y.H.S.

Po^'nson Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. London Printed. Philadelphia Re-Printed, and sold by Joseph ^5^ank in Market-Street, Between Second and Third Streets.
i,M
68 PP.
12.

P.H.S.

N.Y.H.S.

Poems on Various
55 pp. 16*.

Subjects, Religious and Moral.

Philadelphia 1787

Mentioned in Wegelin. No copy could be located save one sold at Auction January 28, 1908. Advertised at the end of Clarkson's Essay on
the Slavery, Philadelphia, 1787.

Subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis WheatNegro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston in New-England. Albany: Re-Printed from the London Edition, by Barber & Southwick, For Thomas Spencer, Book-Seller, Market-Street 1793.
ley,

Poems on Various

89 (3) pp. 16.

L.O.C.

R.I.H.S.

B.U.

French

The Negro Equalled by few Europeans. Translated from the [of I'Abbe La Vallee]. To which are added. Poems on Various

Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. In two volumes. Philadelphia: Printed by and for William W. Woodward, No. 17, Chestnut Street, 1801. 259-248 [238] pp. 12. A.A.S. N.Y.P. B.P. L.O.C. M.H.S.

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in NewEngland. Dedicated to The Countess of Huntingdon. Walpole, N. H. Printed for Thomas & Thomas, By David Newhall. 1802.
86 pp. A.A.S.
12.

B.A.

B.P.

L.O.C.

N.Y.H.S.

M.H.S.

Harvard.

Poems, on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to the late Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston (Mass.) Hartford: Printed by Oliver Steele, 1804. 92 (2) pp. 12. A.A.S. Y.U. W.L.
Beautiful Poem on Providence; written by a young female slave. is subjoined A short Account of this extraordinary Writer. Halifax, Printed by E. Gay 1805. 8 pp. 12. Copied from Wegelin. No copy located.

To which

S3

Equiano, Olaudah. The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by himself To which are added, Poems on various subjects by Phillis Wheat! ey, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. Halifax, Printed at the Olffice of J. Nicholson and Co., 1813.
. . .

Portrait.

514 [2] pp.

12.

L.O.C.

Poems, on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in NewEngland. London Printed. Re-printed, in New-England.
.

1816.
120 pp. 16.

A.A.S.

Y.U.

B.P.

N.Y.H.S.

Slave.
1834.

of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans. (Quotation 4 line.) Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, Lyceum Depository, 3 Cornhill.
Portrait. 103 pp. 16. A.A.S. B.A. B.P. L.O.C. M.H.S. N.Y.H.S. N.L. is written by Margaretta Matilda Odell of Jamaica Plain. This authoress was "a collateral descendant of Mrs. Wheatley, and has been familiar with the name and fame of Phillis from her childhood."

Memoir and Poem

The Memoir

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans. (4 lines Quotation.) Samuel 3 Cornhill. Second edition. Boston Light & Horton, 1 Harris, Printer. 1835. 110 pp. 2 leaf advertisement. 16. Portrait. N.L. A.A.S. Y.U. N.Y.P. M.H.S. N.Y.H.S.
:

&

Slave.

Memoir and Poems Also, Poems by

Portrait.

Boston, Published by
N.L.
A.A.S.

of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Third edition. a Slave. (4 line Quotation.) Isaac Knapp, No. 25 Cornhill. 1838.
16.

ISS pp.

B.P. L.O.C. M.H.S. N.Y.H.S. Harvard. a slave are written by George M. Horton, the Memoir Alibone is the same as in the two foregoing editions by M. M. Odell. says: Of this edition about 200 copies, completed by reprinting a few missing pages, were placed on sale in 1864. No copy of this 1864 edition could be located.

B.A.

The poems by

Wheatley, Banneker, and Horton; with Selections from the Poetical Works of Wheatley and Horton, and the Letter of Washington to Wheatley, and of Jefferson to Banneker. By William G. Allen.
Boston: Press of Daniel Laing,
48 pp.
8.

Jr.,

IJ^

Water
title.

Paper cover, and cover

55

Street. 1849. Y.U. M.H.S.

Poem on the capture of Gen. Charles Lee, by the British. "The following thoughts on his Excellency Major General Lee being betray'd into the hands of the Enemy by the treachery of a pretended friend; To the Honorable James Bowdoin, Esqr. are most respectfully Inscrib'd, By his most obedient and devoted humble servant, Phillis Wheatley." Printed from manuscript, Boston, Dec. 30, 1776, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 1863-1864.
Proposals for printing by subscription a volume of Poems & Leton various subjects, dedicated to the Right Hon. Benjamin Franklin, Esq One of the Ambassadors of the United States at the Court of France, BY PHILLIS PETERS. From "The Evening Post and General Advertiser" of Oct. 30, 1779. (List follows.) In Mass. Hist. Soc.
:

ters

Proc. 1864-1865.

various Subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis WheatNegro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston in New-England. With Memoirs by W. H. Jackson. Denver, Colo., W. H. Lawrence &
ley,

Poems on

Co. 1887 (1886).

149 pp. 8. L.O.C. N.Y.P.L. Contains also Sketches of Benjamin Bannecker, James

Durham and

Thomas

Fuller.

in

The Poems London 1773.

of Phillis Wheatley. Philadelphia R. R.

88 pp.
12.

&

As they were originally published C. C. Wright 1909.

N.Y.P.L.

Portrait.

L.O.C.

Phillis

Wheatley

(Phillis Peters).

Critical

Attempt and a BibNinety-nine

liography of Her Writings. By Chas. Fred. Heartman. Copies printed for the Author. New York, 1915. Portrait and 10 Facsimiles. 47 pp. 8.
Y.U.
P.H.S.

L.O.C.
N.L., etc.

B.A.

B.P.

St.L.M.L.A.

J.C.B.

N.Y.P.L.

A.A.S.

Number seven of Heartman's Historical Series. 8 on Japan Vellum.

91 copies printed, also

Poems and Letters. First ColPhillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters). Edited by Chas. Fred. Heartman. With an Apprecialected Edition. Four hundred copies printed for Chas. tion by Arthur A. Schomburg. Fred. Heartman, New York City, 1915.
Portrait.
8.

B.P. St.L.M.L.A. A.A.S. J.C.B. N.Y.P.L. eight of Heartman's Historical Series. 340 copies printed, also 50 copies on Fabriano Handmade Paper and 10 on Japan Vellum.

Y.U.

L.O.C.

Number

Six Broadsides relating to Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters), with Portrait and Facsimile of her Handwriting. Twenty-five Copies printed for Chas. Fred. Heartman, New York City, 1915. 4 pages and 8 reproductions on 8 leaves. Folio. Boards. N.Y.H.S. Conn.H.S. L.O.C. J.C.B. B.P. N.Y.P.L, P.H.S. A.A.S.
St.L.M.L.A.
L.C.P. Partly taken from the plates used in the Bibliography.
57
Plates destroyed.