Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1911 or 1912
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1911 or 1912
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 27
- 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:
- Nash asks who "Aunt Kate" is and mentions the "prophet in London noise." Discusses Oakley's singing and requests to draw her hands when she gets back from Scotland. Includes an ink drawing entitled "You should have seen us going down the Strand last night!" (reproduced in <title>Dear Mercia</title>, page 53). People mentioned: Aunt Kate and Wilkie.
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (1 leaf) : autograph letter, signed : 20 x 25 cm
- Genre:
- Pen and ink drawings, Humorous pictures, Letters, Photographs, and Poems
- Subject Terms:
- Bookplate designersBookplatesLandscape paintersPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishWorld War, 1914-1918
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brooks, Ivan Wilkinson, 1891-1952
- 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/2185196
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185196?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1