A 847: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 847
- Date: [early 1885 (THJ)]
- Status: letter [to Recipient Unknown], signed, fair-copy draft, not mailed
- Formula: 1 sheet (2 l)
- Paper: wove, white stationery embossed WESTON'S LINEN RECORD 1881
- Dimensions: 203 x 128 mm, leaf
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- Letters (1894), 423; Bachelor of Arts, May 1895; Letters (1958), L 965
- Commentary
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This fair-copy letter-draft, composed around 1885 (THJ), was found among Dickinson's papers after her death; the identity of the addressee is unknown. For a related fragment, see A 848 (about 1885 [THJ]). The fragment may be a draft of a passage in the letter; or, it may be an autonomous text, incorporated in the letter because of its momentary aptness.
One editorial notation is penciled on A 847: upper right, MTB? 411. The notation indicates that the text—or a version of it—was published in Letters (1931), 411–12.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Weston's Linen Record 1881
- Document was pre-folded by the manufacturer
- 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 underlining
- Manuscript is marked by editors, copyists, recipients, or others
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
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