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Trace Fragments

The following fragments, identified by document catalog number and by first line(s), are considered "trace" fragments. These are fragments that appear—in part or in their entirety and often altered—in other poems, letters, or fragments in Dickinson's oeuvre. A single document may carry several different kinds of texts, including poems, messages, and autonomous fragments; here entries point specifically to the trace fragment(s) on a given document, rather than to the document as a whole. Selection of an entry from this index accesses the "Reading View" of the document. Tags in the "SGML View" identify lines, words, or phrases in the fragments that are traced to other documents. For further discussion regarding both "autonomous" and "trace" fragments, see "'Most Arrows': Autonomy and Intertextuality in Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments."