This letter was sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in August 1885 (THJ). Although the letter is in pencil, the accompanying envelope is addressed, in ink, by Dickinson: "Col. T. W. Higginson - | Cambridge - | Mass -." One passage in this letter appears, altered, in a letter possibly sent to Sara Philips Colton (Gillett) in late summer 1885; see Oresman. For related drafts and/or fragments, see A 802 and A 809. These fragments, probably composed around 1885 (THJ), appear to be autonomous texts, incorporated in the letters to Colton and Higginson because of their momentary aptness.