A 858: etext transcription

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. Dickinson's handwriting fills the white spaces of the margin and traverses the spaces between the lines of print. The text of the fragment, which concerns a lawsuit, seems obliquely yet tantalizingly related to the printed text concerning "capital" and "companies."