Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1912
- 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 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. 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 designersBookplatesLandscape paintersPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishWorld War, 1914-1918
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brooks, Ivan Wilkinson, 1891-1952Seutoni, 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