A 853 etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 853
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: wove, white, blue-ruled stationery
- Dimensions: 95 x 44 mm
- Edges: top, bottom, left, right: torn
- Folds: folded horizontally in half
- Media: pencil
- Hand: rough
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- Home (1955), 43; Letters (1958), PF 74
- 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 another composition; alternatively, it may be an experiment in aphoristic form; or, possibly, a brief but complete poem unrecognized as such because of the crudeness of its material container. Dickinson wrote neatly within the rule of the paper.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Wove, white, blue rule
- Document was folded in half, horizontally or vertically
- Composed by Dickinson in pencil
- Composed by Dickinson in a rough-copy hand
- Dickinson's writing appears on one side of the paper/leaf only
- Dickinson's writing appears within the rule of the paper
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
