BPL Higg 116: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: BPL Higg 116 (Ms. Am. 1093 [112])
- Date: [6 August 1885 (THJ)]
- Status: letter [to TWH], signed, fair-copy, mailed
- Formula: 1 sheet (2 l)
- Paper: wove, white stationery embossed WESTON'S LINEN
- Dimensions: 205 x 130 mm, leaf
- Folds: folded horizontally into thirds
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
- Collection
- Boston Public Library
- Commentary
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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.
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered outside the family archives
- Weston's Linen
- Document was pre-folded by the manufacturer
- Document was folded into thirds, 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
- Boston Public Library
