A 331: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 331
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: laid, white stationery
- Dimensions: 34 x 126 mm
- Edges: bottom, right: torn
- Folds: folded vertically in half
- 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 100
- Commentary
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One of the many brief extrageneric texts found among her late papers after her death, Dickinson's final intentions toward this fragment remain unknown. It may have been destined for incorporation into a poem, a letter, or another composition; alternatively, it may be an experiment in aphoristic form, or a compressed lyric poem unrecognized as such because of the crudeness of its material container.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Laid, white, unruled
- Document was folded in half, horizontally or vertically
- Composed by Dickinson in pencil
- Composed by Dickinson in a rough-copy hand
- Dickinson's writing appears on one side of the paper/leaf only
- Dickinson added text infra- and/or supralinearly
- Text contains additions or variants
- Text contains brackets, half-brackets, and/or parentheses
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
