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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 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 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 designers
Bookplates
Hunting
Landscape painters
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
World War, 1914-1918
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Nash, Barbara
Nash, 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