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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, 1963 June 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448216
Accession number
MA 23840.43
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1963 June 17
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 aerogramme (2 pages) ; 26.5 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory + Ismail Merchant, 143, East 62nd Street, New York 21, U.S.A., postmarked June 18, 1963.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Alarmed to hear that Ivory and Merchant haven't received her letters; thanking them for the production stills of Shashi Kapoor and Leela Naidu; voicing her misgivings about her work on the screenplay of "The Householder," and how she feels it compares (badly) to Paddy Chayefsky's script for "The Bachelor Party" (for the Spanish television series Gran Teatro); describing her family's recent trip to Kasauli and the English "Mummies and the Kiddies," and a strange dream she had the night before.