Parted Love! (untitled fair copy)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1869 September 10
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Person to Whom the Manuscript was Assigned: Maria Francesca Rossetti
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Library of the South African National Gallery
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
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 The Passover in the Holy Family .