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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets he should publish a book all margin full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

Ada Leverson

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Ada Leverson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1862
Born: October 10
Died: 1933
Died: August 30
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