BIB_ID
448580
Accession number
MA 23840.129a
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, 1964 April 13
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 28 x 21.2 cm
Notes
Copy made on Merchant Ivory letterhead.
Addressed to The Honorable Chester Bowles, American Ambassador, American Embassy, New Delhi.
Enclosed in a letter from Ismail Merchant to James Ivory, dated April 10, 1964 (see MA 23840.129a)
Addressed to The Honorable Chester Bowles, American Ambassador, American Embassy, New Delhi.
Enclosed in a letter from Ismail Merchant to James Ivory, dated April 10, 1964 (see MA 23840.129a)
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Introducing himself, Ivory, and MIP; explaining in great detail the timeline of their problems with Columbia Pictures in regard to the Indian release of "The Householder"; asking Bowles for any help or advice he can provide in dealing with this "large and world-renowned American company," in the interests of "further[ing] those Indo-American [business] relations which Columbia are so grieviously undermining."
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