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Call Number:
MSS 24
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Title(s):
Letter to Mercia Oakley
Date:
1910
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Letters
Part of Collection:
Nash 9
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Written from South Kensington. Black bordered. Nash discusses a story related in Oakley's previous letter concerning Oakley's mother and a swallow. Further discusses birds and mention's Nash's trip to "the Exhibition".
Physical Description:
4 pages (1 leaf) : autograph letter, signed : 15 x 20 cm
Genre:
Humorous pictures, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Poems
Subject Terms:
Bookplate designers
Bookplates
Landscape painters
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
World War, 1914-1918
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Nash, Paul, 1889-1946
Oakley, Mercia
Finding Aid Title:
Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/30.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185177
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185177?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1