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Call Number:
MSS 24
Holdings:
[Request]
Title(s):
Letter to Mercia Oakley
Date:
1912
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Letters
Part of Collection:
Nash 32
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 Chelsea. Begins with a poem by Nash about Oakley. Nash discusses the emotional toll of his recent breakup and expresses the comfort he finds in the friendship of his "sister" Oakley.
Physical Description:
6 pages (3 leaves) : autograph letter, signed : 26 x 21 cm
Genre:
Poems, Humorous pictures, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, and Photographs
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/2185201
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185201?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1