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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, Mumbai, India, [1965 January 15] : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448863
Accession number
MA 23840.212
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, [1965 January 15]
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 22.7 x 17.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Date extrapolated from postmark and perpetual calendar ("Friday").
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory + Ismail Merchant, Gool Villa, 32, Motlibai St., Bombay 8, postmarked January 16, 1965.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Telling them everyone is angry with them for their sudden scheduling changes-- Marcus, "Pincho"-- except for Madhur, who still wishes she'd had more notice; saying she doesn't want to be their intermediary if the schedule isn't fixed; asking how shooting is going and commenting on some plot points; debating how the character Buckingham should be dealt with at the end; asking "are we concentrating too much on Sanju and Lizzie, at the expense of everyone else?"; remarking on the film festival in Delhi, how impossible it is to get tickets, and the mad atmosphere it has brought; announcing "Guess what? I haven't got labyrithitis. I got [sic] something else, even more interesting"-- "some nervous disorder"; citing an incident at the doctor where she couldn't undo a button, while the doctor and Jhab watched and finally had a laughing fit.