A 856: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 856
- Date: [about 1877 or last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: wove, off-white stationery
- Dimensions: 60 x 128 mm
- Edges: bottom, left: torn
- Media: pencil
- Hand: rough
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 298; Letters (1958), PF 35
- Commentary
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This fragment appears, in part, as a trace (text altered) in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (BPL Higg 86) composed around September 1877 (THJ). In this case the closing passage—"I remember nothing so | dear as to see you -"—constitutes the trace; the opening passage—"her Eyes were (are) very | shrill -"—may or may not be associated with Mary (Channing) Higginson. It is not incorporated into this letter or into any other extant composition.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Wove, off-white, unruled
- 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 added text infra- and/or supralinearly
- Text contains additions or variants
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
