[Phillis Wheatley letter to Rev. Samuel Hopkins]
Contributors: Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803, recipient; Quaque, Philip, ca. 1741-1816
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Missionaries
Description: Author writes regretfully of the lack of success of missionary Philip Quaque and requests assistance in the distribution of her book of poetry.
Notes: Holograph; single page of text.

Title provided by cataloger.

Folder also includes a copy of the familiar engraved portrait of Wheatley and a page excised from an edition of the Cyclopædia of American literature containing the entry on Wheatley.

Recipient was a Congregational minister and an early proponent of the abolition of slavery.