A 875
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 875
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric, fair-copy draft, excerpted from an abandoned composition?
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: quadrille stationery
- Dimensions: 22 x 118 mm
- Edges: top, left: torn
- Folds: folded vertically in half
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 318; Letters (1958), PF 109
- Commentary
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It is possible that this brief text, now an autonomous extrageneric fragment, was scissored from a letter- or poem-draft since lost, destroyed, or beyond positive identification. Two stray marks along the torn top edge of the paper indicate that text has been lost, though whether from the opening of the extant text or from another, discrete composition remains unknown. The author of the tears has not been identified; they may be the work of a censor or of Dickinson herself.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Quadrille
- Document was folded in half, horizontally or vertically
- Composed by Dickinson in pencil
- Composed by Dickinson in a fair-copy hand
- Dickinson's writing appears on one side of the paper/leaf only
- Dickinson's writing appears within the rule of the paper
- Text contains stray letters and/or marks
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
