Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1912 July
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1912 July
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 39
- 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 Iver Heath. Nash has been busy and completed three landscapes. He hopes that Oakley will pose for another picture. He also discusses potential art sales. Includes ink drawing of a reclining woman (reproduced in <title>Dear Mercia</title>, p. 81). People mentioned: Nash's uncle, Nugent Monck (producer of the Norwich Players), Gordon Bottomley, John Nash, and Aunt Jane.
- 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:
- Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948Monck, Walter Nugent Bligh, 1878-1958Nash, John, 1893-1977
- Finding Aid Title:
- Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185208
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185208?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1