A 884: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 884
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: quadrille stationery
- Dimensions: 68 x 125 mm
- Edges: top, bottom, left: torn
- Folds: folded vertically in half
- Media: pencil
- Hand: pencil
- Collection
- Amherst College Library
- Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
- Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 312; Letters (1958), PF 54
- Commentary
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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; or, possibly, a compressed lyric poem unrecognized as such because of the crudeness of its material container. The careful lineation of the text strongly suggests that it is verse.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered among Dickinson's papers, unbound
- Quadrille
- 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
- Amherst College Library, Special Collections
