BIB_ID
448581
Accession number
MA 23840.130
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, [1964] April 18
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 aerogramme (2 pages) ; 26.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Year from postmark.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, New York 21, N.Y., U.S.A., postmarked April 18, 1964.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 143 East 62nd Street, New York 21, N.Y., U.S.A., postmarked April 18, 1964.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Opening "This is going to be my last letter"; assuming from Ivory's recent telegram that Columbia will not budge, no matter what; accusing Ivory of lying about "The Delhi Way" being finished; saying "I am sick tired and frustrated" with the Columbia affair and repeating his willingness to drop them and distribute "The Householder" in India himself; begging "please do not kill Householder with any more delays. People are forgetting the film ... Shashi is very angry and so am I"; demanding to know why Ivory didn't ask for a copy of the letter from the Finance Ministry lifting the import quota sooner; signing off with "I am losing my mind..."
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