Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1911 September 23
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1911 September 23
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 17
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe 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 Iver Heath. Concerns a house party in the country and describes the landscape and Nash's first experience fowling. Also mentions the visit of Nash's friend, who is in love. Nash discusses his desire to become famous, but explains that his first goal is to become independent of his father. Includes two sketches, the first of a staircase and the second of a man holding a smoking gun (reproduced in <title>Dear Mercia</title>, opposite p. 41). People mentioned: Barbara (Nash?).
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (2 leaves) : autograph letter, signed : 26 x 20 cm
- Genre:
- Humorous pictures, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Poems
- Subject Terms:
- Bookplate designersBookplatesHuntingLandscape paintersPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishWorld War, 1914-1918
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Nash, BarbaraNash, William Harry, -1929
- 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/2185186
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185186?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1