Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1911
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1911
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 16
- 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:
- Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Nash admonishes Oakley against including "sudden shocks" in her letters. Humorously explains the domestic drama that ensued upon his reading in her last letter that she "immediately fell head over ears in love." People mentioned: Mrs. Caswell, Mrs. Peddell, Peddell the manservant, Barbara Nash, John Nash, and W. H. Nash.
- 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 designersBookplatesLandscape paintersPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishWorld War, 1914-1918
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Nash, BarbaraNash, John, 1893-1977Nash, 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/2185185
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185185?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1