A 856: etext transcription

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.