BIB_ID
448534
Accession number
MA 23840.94
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, [1964] January 24
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.9 x 18.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Year from postmark.
Last line of letter handwritten on verso. Written on letterhead from L.F. Naronha & Sons, upside-down.
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, New York, New York, U.S.A., postmarked January 24, 1964.
Last line of letter handwritten on verso. Written on letterhead from L.F. Naronha & Sons, upside-down.
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, New York, New York, U.S.A., postmarked January 24, 1964.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of Ivory's letter dated the 19th, and the news that Ivory's time in California has been extended; repeating the news about the negative and prints of "The Householder" making it through customs; passing on news of the logistics of handling the prints and negative, and of screening the film for some of the people involved in the distribution; passing on news of Shashi's financial involvement, as well as the Maharaja of Bhavnagar, for the actors film ["Shakespeare Wallah"]; saying that this morning he met with officials at the Reserve Bank to try to resolve their objections to the formation of the American branch of MIP; mentioning his resolve to keep all 40 days of Ramadan.
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