YUL: etext transcription
- Physical Description
- Manuscript: YUL
- Date: [about 1884 (THJ)]
- Status: letter [to Abigail Girdler Cooper], fair-copy, mailed
- Formula: 1 sheet (2 l, second leaf blank); 1 leaf (fragment), pinned
- Paper: wove, white stationery
- Dimensions: 204 x 127 mm, leaf; 35 x 127 mm, fragment
- Edges: fragment: top, bottom, right: torn
- Folds: leaf: folded horizontally into thirds; fragment: unfolded
- Media: pencil
- Hand: fair
- Collection
- The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Commentary
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This letter was sent to Abigail Cooper around 1884 (THJ), presumably with the pinned slip. One set of pinholes (top center) is visible on the folded sheet carrying the letter; two sets of pinholes (top center; bottom right) appear on the scrap carrying the address, suggesting that Dickinson may have at one time pinned the slip to another document, or that Abigail Cooper herself unpinned and repinned it. For additional information on Abigail Cooper, see Thomas H. Johnson, Letters (1958), Appendix 1. For a related fragment, see A 883 (about 1884 [THJ]).
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- Tags
- Text was composed between c.1870 and c.1886
- Document was discovered outside the family archives
- Wove, white, unruled
- Document was pinned to another document; pin remains attached
- Document has pin pricks
- 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
- The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
