Editing notebook for the film Le divorce : autograph manuscript.

Notebook kept by James Ivory while editing the film Le Divorce. Front flyleaf includes a printed label "Le Divorce." Notes, clippings and added material are laid in throughout.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the upper cover: ""Le Divorce" editing book."
Location and date of creation inferred from contents of the notebook.
The screenplay for Le Divorce was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory based on the book of the same title by Diane Johnson. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in August 2003.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.