H 254
JP 76
FP 143
OMC 48
late 1850s
pencil
watermark/embossment: N, no symbol
12.8 x 12 cm.
Poems (1890), 116, titled "Setting Sail." "Sue" on verso, with "X"
in pencil. Bottom third torn away--a mutilation or Dickinson's frugal use of paper? Descending
arc, perhaps of "Y" in "Emily," makes it appear that signature was torn away.
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