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The tenor, style, and manner of President Washington's letter to Miss Wheatley the publication of her works, together with an accompanying likeness of the author, and her inscription and dedication of the volume to the "Right Honorable the Countess of Huntingdon," show, that she, though young, was a person of no ordinary mind, no common attainments; but at the time, one of the brightest ornaments among the American literati.
With him was Captain Fred H. Brown, who expected to go back to Fort Laramie, and wished, first, to get a scalp. He and Captain Fetterman were rivals for scalps and had almost forgotten the affair of December 6. They were gallant soldiers, but reckless. Altogether the detachment numbered seventy-nine officers and men, and two scouts named Wheatley and Fisher.
H. B. Wheatley: "I can scarcely imagine anything more maddening than a frequent reference to cards in a drawer." But it is to be considered that all systems have defects, and the problem of choosing the least defective is ever before us.
George Washington wrote in grave and gentle courtesy to a Negro woman, in 1776, that he would "be happy to see" at his headquarters at any time, a person "to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficial in her dispensations." This child, Phillis Wheatley, sang her trite and halting strain to a world that wondered and could not produce her like.
'My dear island, he writes, 'is second to my dead son's honor, and to nothing else. His son, you know, Lord Wheatley, was a bad lot, a very bad lot indeed." "He left a lot of unpaid debts, didn't he?" "Yes, gambling debts. He spent his time knocking about Paris and London with his cousin Constantine, by no means an improving companion, if report speaks truly.
See also H. B. Wheatley, Samuel Pepys and the World he Lived In . Special topics in the reign of Charles II: W. E. Sydney, Social Life in England, 1660-1660 ; J. H. Overton, Life in the English Church, 1663-1714 ; John Pollock, The Popish Plot ; G.B. Hertz, English Public Opinion after the Restoration ; C. B. R. Kent, The Early History of the Tories .
It may be that Saunders wrote the name Drake, for it was James Rodman Drake who did "The Culprit Fay." Perhaps it was the printer's fault that the poem is accredited to Dana. Perhaps Mr. Saunders writes so legible a hand that the printers are careless with his manuscript. "There is," says Wheatley, "there is a popular notion among authors that it is not wise to write a clear hand.
When he died, in 1839, he left a will cutting off with small annuities both his son James Mason, who had married Emma Wheatley, a member of the famous Stock Company of the old Park Theatre, the favourite "Desdemona," "Julia," "Mrs. Heller" of her day; and his daughter Helen, who had also married against his wishes.
In this connection Addison offered the following explanation of the name of the Ludgate Hill inn, which, it has been shrewdly conjectured by Henry B. Wheatley, was probably intended as a joke.
She also was well versed in Latin, in which language she composed several pieces. Miss Wheatley died in 1780, at the age of 26 years, being seven years of age when brought to this country in 1761.
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