A 865: etext transcription

Physical Description
- Manuscript: A 865
- Date: [last decade (THJ)]
- Status: fragment, extrageneric
- Formula: 1 fragment
- Paper: envelope seal, watermarked FAWN(?)
- Dimensions: top: 81 mm; right: 78 mm; left: 76 mm
- Edges: top, right: torn
- Media: pencil
- Hand: rough
Collection
- Amherst College Library
Transmission History
- MSS from LND to MLT, 1891?
Publication History
- NEQ 28 (September 1955): 318; Letters (1958), PF 93
Commentary
- The text inscribed on A 865, by itself an extrageneric fragment, appears as a trace or echo (text altered) in a letter to Elizabeth Carmichael composed around 1880 (THJ). The manuscript of the letter is missing; it is here reproduced from Johnson's Letters (1958) The opening of the letter reads: ". . . I fear Vinnie gave my message as John Alden did the one from Miles Standish, which resulted delightfully for John, but not as well for his friend." The fragment and the letter may or may not be connected.
Tags

< a865.txt.1; fragment_extrageneric >
Not to send
errands by John
Alden is
one of the
instructions
of
History -