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
- 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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