BIB_ID
448076
Accession number
MA 23840.19
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, [1962 October 16]
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 21.5 x 14 cm + envelope
Notes
Date from James Ivory's notes.
Envelope addressed to Messrs. J. Ivory + I. Merchant, Gool Villa, 32, Motlibai Street, Bombay 8.
Envelope addressed to Messrs. J. Ivory + I. Merchant, Gool Villa, 32, Motlibai Street, Bombay 8.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing her vision of a possible scene to include in reshoots of "The Householder" (1963); planning Ivory and Merchant's next visit to Delhi, and teasing Merchant for saying he won't come; asking them to pick up a party dress for her daughter from a shop in Bombay; decribing some difficult book-to-film adaptations involving Dev Anand and Pearl Buck (R.K. Narayan's "Guide"), and Balachandra Rajan's "Too Long in the West"; anticipating a trip to New York.
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