This fair-copy poem-letter was sent to Susan Dickinson in the spring of 1883 (THJ,
RWF, Smith and Hart); for a variant fair-copy version of the poem sent to Thomas
Niles, see A 833 (about 1883 [THJ, RWF]); for a
related fragment, see A 207 (about 1883 [THJ,
RWF]).