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 the letter, see A 817 and A 818; for related fragments see A 820, A 821, and A 822. These fragments may be drafts for passages in the letter, or, as seems more likely, autonomous texts, incorporated into this letter 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.