A 844: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 844
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric, intermediate- or fair-copy draft, excerpted from an abandoned composition?
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: envelope?
- Dimensions: 25 x 139 mm
- Edges: top, bottom, left, right: torn
- Folds: one light horizontal folding mark along the bottom edge
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 306; Letters (1958), PF 23
- Commentary
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One of the many brief extrageneric texts found among her late papers after her death, Dickinson's final intentions toward this fragment remain unknown. It may have been destined for incorporation into a poem, a letter, or a longer pensée; it may have been excerpted from a longer composition, perhaps a letter, since lost or destroyed; alternatively, it may be an experiment in aphoristic form. Dickinson appears to have canceled the word "also" during the initial drive of composition.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered within the family archives (Dickinson Homestead; Evergreens)
- Envelope
- Composed by Dickinson in pencil
- Composed by Dickinson in a fair-copy hand
- Dickinson's writing appears on one side of the paper/leaf only
- Text contains cancellations
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
