Equally revelatory are three Rossetti panels given to Morris as a wedding gift "Dantis Amor, " "The Salutation of Beatrice in Florence" and "The Salutation in the Garden of Eden" reunited for the first time since 1863.
But an e-mail is not the evening news, and perhaps it is time to begin saying our inevitable fond farewell to "Dear, " and to say that farewell before thesalutation has already become dearly departed.