"On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age" in Arminian Magazine

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An issue of The Arminian Magazine for August 1789. The issue features the 20-line poem “On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age” and attributes it as [By Phillis Wheatly, a negro]. Previously bound, possibly as part of a larger volume of Arminian Magazine content. Magazine pages are numbered 353 to 404. Leather spine is slightly powdering and cracking. Interior pages are yellowed, with foxing, and brittle. Last page, containing poem, is detached from rest of pages.

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