Tr A 43a: etext transcription

Physical Description
- Transcript: Tr A 43a
- Status: poem, embedded in a letter (?) [to Frances and Louise Norcross], mailed
- Date: [original MSS: about 1873 (THJ, RWF)]
Collection
- Amherst College Library
Commentary
- The original holograph of this text was destroyed by Frances and/or Louise Norcross. This text reproduces the transcript of the poem made by Frances (Fanny) Norcross for Mabel Loomis Todd. For a rough-copy draft of this poem, see A 462 (about 1873 [THJ, RWF]); for a related fragment, see A 463 (about 1873 [THJ, RWF]).
  
  The transcript of this poem appears in Letters (1894), incorporated in a letter to the Norcrosses. In Poems (1998), however, R. W. Franklin notes that the poem and the letter to the Norcrosses were probably discrete documents, combined by Todd during her editing of Letters (1894). The editorial notations penciled on the document are Mabel Loomis Todd's.
Tags
- - Transcript of a lost or destroyed manuscript

< tra43a.txt.1; poem >
There is no frigate likea book
To take us lands away
Nor any coursers - like a page
Of prancing poetry -
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll,
How frugal is the chariot
That bears the human soul.