This extrageneric fragment may be a passage destined for incorporation in a
letter, notes toward a poem, or an autonomous pensée. Dickinson appears
to have revised the text both during the initial drive of composition, when she
probably crossed out "which" and wrote "with which" on the following line, and
again, immediately after completing a preliminary draft of the text, when she
probably canceled the phrase "of Human | nature" and penciled in variants for
"readily" ("cordially") and for "subject" ("theme"; "concurrence") above and below
the line. The open bracket—"(more noble"—may direct the
writer-reader's passage through the text.