A 348
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 348
- Date: [about 1873 (THJ, RWF)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: wove, white, blue-ruled stationery
- Dimensions: 49 x 126 mm
- Edges: top, bottom: scissored
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- BM (1945), 318; Poems (1955), P 1251 n; Poems (1998), P 1300 (A)
- Commentary
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This extrageneric fragment, by itself an autonomous lyric throe, appears as a trace (lineation and punctuation altered) in a letter to Susan Dickinson possibly composed in 1873 (THJ, RWF). The lines, arranged as prose but scanning as verse, conclude the letter; perhaps, their position at the far end of the letter should prepare us for their "breakaway" into another textual space and, possibly, another genre.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Wove, white, blue rule
- Composed by Dickinson in pencil
- Composed by Dickinson in a fair-copy hand
- Dickinson's writing appears on one side of the paper/leaf only
- Dickinson's writing appears within the rule of the paper
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
