A 866: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 866
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: laid, white, blue-ruled stationery embossed OLD BERKSHIRE (?)
- Dimensions: 43 x 69 mm
- Edges: top, left, right: torn; bottom: scissored and torn
- Media: pencil
- Hand:
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 315; Letters (1958), PF 94
- Commentary
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This brief extrageneric fragment, written against the blue-rule of the stationery, arises on the same surface as the fragmentary remains of a message composed in brown ink in an unidentified hand. Dickinson's final intentions toward this text remain unknown. It may have been destined for incorporation into a poem, a letter, or a longer pensée; alternatively, it may be an experiment in aphoristic form.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Old Berkshire
- 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 against the rule of the paper
- Dickinson composed her text around, over, or on the verso of a text written by an alien hand
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
< a866.txt.1; fragment_extrageneric >
Nothing is so
old as a
dilapidated
charm -
Nothing is so
old as a
dilapidated
charm -