A 869: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 869
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: wove, white stationery
- Dimensions: 28 x 135 mm
- Edges: top, bottom: scissored
- Folds: folded horizontally in half and vertically into uneven thirds
- Media: pencil
- Hand: rough
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 317; Letters (1958), PF 102
- Commentary
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One of the many brief, extrageneric texts found among Dickinson's late papers after her death, Dickinson's final intentions toward the fragment 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. A single stray pencil mark appears along the bottom edge of the opposing side of the paper; it has not been transcribed.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Wove, white, unruled
- Document was folded in half, horizontally or vertically
- Document was folded into thirds, horizontally or vertically
- 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
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
