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Letter from Ismail Merchant, Mumbai, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, [1963 November 17] : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448337
Accession number
MA 23840.59
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, [1963 November 17]
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 27.5 x 21.5 + envelope
Notes
Month and year from postmark and day ("Sunday") from perpetual calendar.
Envelope stamped, addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, N.Y., NY 21, N.Y. U.S.A., postmarked November 18, 1963.
Written on Ismail Merchant's personal letterhead.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Saying "It is four Sunday morning-- Everyone's asleep-- My mind was not at rest-- I felt terribly lonely and I just couldn't get my mind off you"; admitting "the plane journey was tiresome"; describing the party that met him at the airport-- Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kapoor, Shiroor and his family-- and saying that he did interviews the same day he arrived; announcing that "It seems we will get our Rs 41 lakhs soon," and that he called a press conference at the Radio Club for Thursday; telling Ivory that he talked to Ruth on the phone and will be in Delhi within a week; letting Ivory know that Kariwala has received the Rs 5000 paid by Shashi, who he will see Shashi today (Shashi has also sent Ivory some review clippings); asking Ivory if he received Merchant's postcard from London, to please send the photograph taken by Duane Michael, and to finish the Delhi film ("The Delhi Way"); saying he wants to open "The Householder" in Bombay at the Metro, and Blamey "feels that Columbia N. York has to push Metro in N York to get them"; describing where he hopes to book the film in Delhi and Calcutta; noting in the upper margin of the first page that "Prayag had a grand time with Ray."