A 385 / 386: etext transcription

Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 385 / 386
- Date: [A 385: about 1883 (THJ, RWF); A 386: about 1883 (RWF), about 1884 (THJ)]
- Status: A 385: poem, fair-copy draft; A 386: poem, fair-copy draft, with alternatives
- Formula: 1 leaf
- Paper: wove, off-white, blue-ruled stationery embossed CONGRESS above a capitol
- Dimensions: 202 x 126 mm
- Edges: left: torn
- Folds: folded horizontally into thirds
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
Collection
- Amherst College Library
Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1888?
Publication History
- A 385, text 1: Poems (1955), P 1569 n; Poems (1998), P 1598 (A) A 386, text 1: Poems (1955), P 1622 n; Poems (1998), P 1599 (B)
Commentary
- 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.
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