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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 Undetermined

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 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 designers
Bookplates
Landscape painters
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
World War, 1914-1918
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Brooks, Ivan Wilkinson, 1891-1952
Seutoni, 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