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Letter of Aubrey Beardsley - Second Page

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Description: Letter from Aubrey Beardsley to John Gray - Second Page

Date Item Created: 1896

Document Reference: University of Reading, Special Collections MS160/1 ff23 (with UoR Spec Coll permission)

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Aubrey Beardsley and John Gray, significant figures of the aesthetic or decadent publishing of the 1890s, were seen as disciples of Wilde. Both, though, would begin to reject the older man's influence. Beardsley was disappointed with Wilde's censoring of his drawings for Salomé. Gray struggled with his homosexuality, and later became a priest.

Shown here is the second page of a letter from Beardsley to Gray congratulating him on his Spiritual Poems (1896): "Your muse always seems to me the most successful creature & the most satisfactory."

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