Letter to Mercia Oakley, 1914 December 4
- Call Number:
- MSS 24
- Title(s):
- Letter to Mercia Oakley
- Date:
- 1914 December 4
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters
- Part of Collection:
- Nash 48
- 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 announces his plans to marry on December 17, 1914, and his acceptance into military service. Nash hates the war, writing, "never was there such world-amazing nonsense may it gasp itself lifeless before two years are out." Includes envelope. People mentioned: Margaret Odeh.
- Physical Description:
- 3 pages (1 leaf) : autograph letter, signed : 20 x 26 cm
- Genre:
- Humorous pictures, Pen and ink drawings, 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, Margaret Theodosia, 1887-1960
- Finding Aid Title:
- Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185217
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185217?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1