This fair-copy letter-draft, composed around 1885 (THJ, RWF), was found among Dickinson's papers after her death. The text is incomplete. For additional drafts of this letter, see A 818 and A 819; for related fragments, see A 820, A 821, and A 822. These fragments, probably composed around 1885, may be drafts for passages in Dickinson's last letter to Hunt Jackson, or, as seems more likely, autonomous texts, incorporated into this letter-draft because of their momentary aptness. One passage in this draft appears, altered, in an earlier (?) letter to Benjamin Kimball; see NYPL—Berg (1885 [THJ]). The published versions of the letter-draft to Hunt Jackson are all composites based on manuscripts A 817, A 818, and A 819.