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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, [1963] March 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448204
Accession number
MA 23840.31
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, [1963] March 28
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.5 x 17.4 cm
Notes
Year from James Ivory's notes.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Teasing Ivory for not finding Rome "completely satisfying"; citing a piece in "The Statesman" that Jhab placed for 4 lakhs; summarizing part of a letter from her mother-in-law regarding a dinner with Dr. Zakir Hussein, "Mrs. Pandit," and Pearl Buck, and second-hand accounts of conversations with Nehru; quoting a long passage from a letter from Prayag Raj to her husband Cyrus, describing the night Ivory left India; thanking Ivory for "the bound Householder script"; describing her current writing project, "a strange sort of experiment"; comparing her mother-in-law-- "Can Cyrus not write one line to his mother?"-- to Durga Khote, who plays the mother in "The Householder" (1963); wondering if Merchant and Ivory have finally met up, after traveling separately.