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1Author:  Wheatley Phillis 1753-1784Add
 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,
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