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 35
- 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 mentions plans to travel to Paris soon and discusses drawing. Nash writes, "I want a drastic, desperate change, a shock of some sort so fierce violent soul-shaking" and he complains that he has yet to find success in his profession. Nash also describes a day he spent with Vere. Includes a smaller sheet with the heading "Facts". People mentioned: Ivan Wilkinson Brooks, Miss Hogan, and Vere Seutoni.
- Physical Description:
- 5 pages (3 leaves) : autograph letter, signed : 25 x 20 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:
- 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/2185204
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2185204?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1