A 819: etext transcription

Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 819
- Date: [March 1885 (THJ, RWF)]
- Status: letter, with poems embedded [to Helen Hunt Jackson], signed, fair-copy draft, incomplete, not mailed
- Formula: 1 leaf; 1 sheet (2 l); 1 leaf
- Paper: laid, off-white stationery embossed Pure Irish Linen F. H. D. & Co. and impressed with a crown
- Dimensions: 205 x 132, leaf
- Edges: A 819: left: torn; A 819c: left: torn
- Folds: folded horizontally into thirds
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
Collection
- Amherst College Library
Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
Publication History
- Letters (1894), 424–25; Poems (1955), P 1601, lines of verse (2) only; Letters (1958), L 976; Poems (1998), P 1671 (E), lines of verse (1), with letter in part; Poems (1998), P 1675 (B), lines of verse (2), with letter in part
Commentary
- 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.
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