| | 281 | Author: | Wheatley
Phillis
1753-1784 | Add | | | Title: | The Poems of Phillis Wheatley  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | Chadwyck-Healey, Database of African-American poetry, 1760-1900 | CH-DatabaseAfrAmPoetry | | | | Description: | I Have taken the freedom to address your Excellency in the enclosed poem,
and entreat your acceptance, though I am not insensible of its inaccuracies.
Your being appointed by the Grand Continental Congress to be Generalissimo
of the armies of North America, together with the fame of your virtues,
excite sensations not easy to suppress. Your generosity, therefore, I presume,
will pardon the attempt. Wishing your Excellency all possible success in the
great cause you are so generously engaged in. I am, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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