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Call Number:
MSS 24
Holdings:
[Request]
Title(s):
Letter to Mercia Oakley
Date:
1910
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Letters
Part of Collection:
Nash 11
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. Nash comforts Oakley about her friend who "did back-street things" and assures her that it was not her fault. Nash writes that he is trying to earn the money necessary to go to the Slade School in October. He adds that he makes "bookplates for money & studies for his salvation".
Physical Description:
2 pages (1 leaf) : 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:
Slade School of Fine Art
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/2185180
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185180?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1