A 802, by itself an extrageneric fragment or pensée, has links to three
documents: it is a variant version of a rough-copy fragment possibly composed
around 1885 (THJ)(A 809); a draft and variant
version of a message composed late summer 1885 (THJ) and possibly sent to Sara
Philips Colton Gillett (Oresman); and a trace
(text altered) in a letter sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (BPL Higg 116) in early August 1885 (THJ). The
message to Higginson registers Dickinson's shock at the news of Helen Hunt
Jackson's death; the provenance of the note to Gillett, if indeed it was addressed
to her, is not known. Thomas Johnson conjectures that the Oresman manuscript was
not addressed to Gillett but presented to her by the unknown recipient as a
memento.
< a802.txt.1; fragment_extrageneric >
What a Hazard an Accent is!
When I think of the Hearts it has
scuttled or sunk, I al- most fear to lift my Hand to so
much as a punctua tion -