It would seem that Miss Phillis Wheatley has an admirer. Over the past few months, her statue on the Boston Women's Memorial has received a series of small gifts.
Today, she was found holding a bottle of perfume. She has also been provided with a Teddy Bear, a sweater, scratch tickets, flowers, and a handful of pennies.
"Born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship Phillis in colonial Boston, she was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first book published by an African writer in America," is the description of this woman from Boston history from the city's website.
We'll update this to let you know more about the secret gifter.
Details:
http://www.cityofboston.gov/women/memorial.asp
