BIB_ID
448549
Accession number
MA 23840.111
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, [1964] February 22
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 21.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on Merchant Ivory letterhead.
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, New York 21, N.Y., U.S.A., postmarked February 22, 1964.
Durga Khote's address written below date.
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, New York 21, N.Y., U.S.A., postmarked February 22, 1964.
Durga Khote's address written below date.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Enclosing a statement of accounts for 1963-1964 and two copies of letters from the Reserve Bank and the Ministry of Finance [not present]; outlining a meeting with Charles Eagan of the MPEAA, who Merchant briefed on the situation with Columbia over "The Householder"; insisting he is going forward with the Indian release through Kine; describing his lunch with Geeta Bali and their intention to talk to her husband Shammi Kapoor about "The Widow" [never made]; repeating his news about Shashi and Mitra from previous letter ["Shakespeare Wallah"]; demanding clarification regarding Ivory's work on "the Delhi film" ["The Delhi Way"].
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