Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1911 or 1912
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1911 or 1912
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 19
- 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:
- Written from Chelsea. Concerns Oakley's injured ankle, two dances, and the comforting effects of nature. Quotes two poems and includes two sketches--one of upside down dancers and the other of Nash dressed as a pirate (reproduced in <title>Dear Mercia</title>, pages 43 and 45).
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (1 leaf) : autograph letter, signed : 24 x 20 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:
- Nash, Paul, 1889-1946Oakley, Mercia
- Finding Aid Title:
- Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185188
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185188?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1