Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1910 July 21
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1910 July 21
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 10
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- 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:
- A commission Oakley secured for Nash from a Mrs. Wilson (?) went badly and Nash worries that Oakley will consider him "a great rotter." Nash looks forward to meeting artists and writers in order to "get known" and enter "the select circles where he longs to move one day." He is still making bookplates, but is starting to make other types of art as well. The letter ends in a discussion of the books he and Oakley have lent each other. People mentioned: Mrs. Wilson(?).
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (2 leaves) : autograph letter, signed : 23 x 18 cm
- Genre:
- Humorous pictures, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Poems
- Subject Terms:
- Bookplate designersBookplatesLandscape paintersPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishWorld War, 1914-1918
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Nash, Paul, 1889-1946Oakley, 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/2185178
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185178?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1