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COBHAM
To The Printer
Claret; Owl; Beauty; Hermaphroditus; Anguish; Moon=COBHAM
Author/Artist: “Pomona”
Publisher: Barbados Mercury
Date: September 22, 1770
Description: p. 3
Language: English (West Indies)
Repository: Barbados Mercury, 22 Sept. 1770, p. 3. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc
Tags: 18th-century, acrostic, British, newspaper, Phillis Wheatley Peters, verbal, vice, women
For more information, see Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753–84) and “Acrostic Rebuses” of the 1770s.