[Epigram on E. S. Dallas] (“There is a poor devil named Dallas”)Dante Gabriel Rossetti11870 April 27
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The full limerick was sent by DGR in a letter to his publisher
Ellis (28 April 1870). He had begun to work out the text in his letter of the previous day
(see Fredeman, Correspondence, 70. 125). It has not previously been included in DGR's corpus.
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The British Library manuscript text[Epigram on E. S. Dallas] (British Library fair copy manuscript)Dante Gabriel Rossetti1871 April 280