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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 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/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