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Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Nash comments on Oakley's crossness in her last letter. Concerns details of a sketch Oakley has requested.

Written from Iver Heath. Apologizes that he cannot afford Christmas presents and discusses political leanings.

Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Nash makes plans for visiting Oakley. Includes ink drawing entitled "Mercia writing letters with her nose" (reproduced in Dear Mercia, p. 24).

A commission Oakley secured for Nash from a Mrs. Wilson (?) went badly and Nash worries that Oakley will consider him "a great rotter." Nash looks forward to meeting artists and writers in order to "get known" and enter "the select circles where he longs to move one day." He is still making bookplates, but is starting to make other types of art as well. The letter ends in a discussion of the books he and Oakley have lent each other. People mentioned: Mrs. Wilson(?).

Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Nash requests permission to visit Oakley on Saturday. Discusses thoughts in springtime and urges Oakley, "why worry!" People mentioned: Jack (John Northcote Nash).

Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Tells Oakley that he enjoyed visiting her. Includes a sketch entitled, "vague departure of Paul" (reproduced in Dear Mercia, p. 35).

Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Concerns the material in Oakley's last letter. Nash adds that he begins work at the Slade School on Wednesday. Includes two sketches, the first entitled "Injured Innocence (in no sense)" and the second with the caption "Arise, fair maiden from these penitent genuflections" (reproduced in Dear Mercia, pages 33 and 34).

Written from Iver Heath. Black bordered. Nash admonishes Oakley against including "sudden shocks" in her letters. Humorously explains the domestic drama that ensued upon his reading in her last letter that she "immediately fell head over ears in love." People mentioned: Mrs. Caswell, Mrs. Peddell, Peddell the manservant, Barbara Nash, John Nash, and W. H. Nash.

Written from Chelsea. Nash thanks Oakley for the key to his door. The letter continues on a humorous note and ends, "Yrs till two black guineapigs produce one white ten & sixpenny sow."

Written from Chelsea. Concerns Oakley's injured ankle, two dances, and the comforting effects of nature. Quotes two poems and includes two sketches--one of upside down dancers and the other of Nash dressed as a pirate (reproduced in Dear Mercia, pages 43 and 45).