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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) WHEATLEY, PHILLIS. "On Recollection." Printed in its entirety on page 456 of the Gentleman's Magazine for September of 1773. Small 8vo, disbound with the stitching loose. London, 1773
Published virtually simultaneously to her volume of poetry, and accompanied by a footnote indicating that it was "taken from a small volume of her Poems on Various Subjects, just published, written by PHILLIS WHEATLEY, a negro of Boston, who was brought from Africa in 1761, and is now only in the twenty-first year of her age."
