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Call Number:
MSS 24
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Title(s):
Letter to Mercia Oakley
Date:
1912
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Letters
Part of Collection:
Nash 36
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 urges Oakley not to become romantically involved with a student of mathematics. Nash discusses his jealousy and explains that he and Wilkie have had a fight over Vere Seutoni, who thinks she is in love with Nash. Nash says he will no longer be able to visit Paris and hopes to visit Oakley instead. He also discusses the "Green Lady". Includes an ink drawing entitled, "Brother Paul, or, The Monk and the Woman" (reproduced in <title>Dear Mercia</title>, p. 77).
Physical Description:
4 pages (2 leaves) : autograph letter, signed : 25 x 20 cm
Genre:
Pen and ink drawings, Humorous pictures, 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:
Brooks, Ivan Wilkinson, 1891-1952
Seutoni, Veré
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/2185205
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185205?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1