A 752: etext transcription

This is one of a number of late manuscripts in which the opposite sides of the paper constitute separate textual spaces. A 752a carries the remains of an abandoned message-draft, addressee and date of composition unknown. The message, now almost entirely illegible, was probably saved only because Dickinson used the other side of the paper to jot down the text beginning "Emerging from | an Abyss and | entering it again -." The brief, extrageneric fragment inscribed on A 752, by itself an autonomous text, appears as a trace in a letter to Susan Dickinson (HCL B 148) composed around 1885 (THJ). A single, horizontal pencil line along the torn bottom edge of the manuscript, along with several stray letters and marks, indicate that text has been lost, though whether the lost text belonged to the extant fragment or to another text, possibly torn away in an act of revision designed to isolate the extant prose fragment, is not known.