A 385 / 386: etext transcription

This manuscript, carrying two fair-copy poem-drafts composed around 1883 or 1884 (RWF, THJ), was found among Dickinson's papers after her death. For a redacted fair-copy draft of "A Sloop of | Amber slips away" prepared for mailing but not sent, see A 836 (about 1883 [RWF], about 1884 [THJ]; for a related fragment, see A 112 (about 1883 [RWF], about 1884 or last decade [THJ]).

Two editorial notations are penciled on A 386: below the catalog number: ?; right of first line: p 121 (?). The significance of the notations is unclear.