Parted Love! (untitled fair copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Text courtesy of the South African National Gallery <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author> <msprod> <date compdate="1869-09-10">1869 September 10</date> <type>fair copy</type> <assign>Maria Francesca Rossetti</assign> <collation/> <note/> </msprod> <scribe>DGR</scribe> <corrector/> <provenance> <location>Library of the South African National Gallery</location> <recnum/> <note/> </provenance> <physicaldesc> <binding> <cover/> </binding> <paper/> <watermark/> <note/> </physicaldesc> </citnstruct> </sourcedesc> </filedesc> <encodingdesc/> <profiledesc> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This appears to be the earliest copy of DGR's epigram. As WMR's note on the verso indicates, this manuscript is the fragmentary remains of a letter that DGR had written to his sister Maria to ask for information relevant to his drawing of <xref doc="a.3-1867.s78.raw"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i">The Passover in the Holy Family</hi> .

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Sept. 10 1869. DGR written at Penkill to MFR CR's note on the epigram Oh! how the family affections combat Within this heart; and each hour flings a bomb at My burning soul; neither from owl nor from bat Can peace be gained, until I clasp my Wombat! of time between the institution of the Passover & the birth of Christ?II Could the Holy Family have eaten This is a fragment of DGR's original letter to Maria

Comes from a letter addressed by Gabrielto Maria, in wh he asked details bearingon his design The Passover in the HolyFamily. The blue penciling is byChristina.