A 750: etext transcription

Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 750
- Date: [about 1883 (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric, fair-copy draft, excerpted from an abandoned composition?
- Formula: 1 leaf, fragment
- Paper: laid, off-white stationery embossed Pure Irish Linen F. H. D. & Co. and impressed with a crown
- Dimensions: 153 x 132 mm
- Edges: bottom: torn
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
Collection
- Amherst College Library
Transmission History
- MSS from WAD to MLT, 1892?
Publication History
- Rev (1954), 84–85; Letters (1958), L 842; OF (1995), A 750, in facsimile, with unredacted transcription
Commentary
- This fragment, appearing now as an autonomous pensée, may have been excerpted from a longer composition, possibly a letter-draft, since destroyed or lost. Millicent Todd Bingham associated the text with Dickinson's correspondence with Judge Otis P. Lord; no complete fair-copy of the letter to Lord, however, has survived, and Dickinson's final intentions toward the fragment remain unknown.
Tags

< a750.txt.1; fragment_extrageneric >
The withdrawal
of the Fuel of
Rapture does not
withdraw the Rap-
ture itself -
Like Powder in
a Drawer, we
pass it with a
Prayer, it's Thunders
only dormant -