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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 designers
Bookplates
Landscape painters
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
World 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