A 169: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 169
- Date: [1880? (RWF); last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: wove, white stationery embossed WESTON'S LINEN
- Dimensions: 10 x 41 mm
- Edges: top, bottom, left, right: torn
- Media: pencil
- Hand: rough
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 318; Letters (1958), PF 76; Poems (1998), P 1542 (A)
- Commentary
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This brief, extrageneric fragment appears as a trace in the poem beginning "Drowning is not so pitiful" and possibly composed around 1880 (RWF). The manuscript of this poem, though presumably in Mabel Loomis Todd's possession in 1891, has been lost; several transcripts, including Todd's transcript Just for testing and finding bad links prepared as printer's copy for Poems 1896, survive.
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