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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1965 February 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448871
Accession number
MA 23840.218
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1965 February 1
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.7 x 17.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Date extrapolated from postmark and perpetual calendar ("Monday").
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory, c/o I. Merchant, Gool Villa, 32, Motlibai St., Bombay 8, postmarked February 1, 1965.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Opening "Dear Gim (as your telegram humorously has it), No sign of the express letter you were to have sent me on Friday morning"; saying in light of his silence, she has gone ahead and written a scene for Tony and Lizzie (see MA 23840.214a); musing and advising on several parts of "Shakespeare Wallah," including a few parts she doesn't like, and mentioning she did receive another letter from Ivory, which he forgot to stamp; discoursing at length on her mother-in-law M.S.H. Jhabvala, who is staying with them at the moment and "being felicitated right and left on her accession to the presidentship of All India W.C."; describing in sarcastic and satirical fashion her invitation to join the local chapter of the Women's Conference and all the women she would meet; saying her mother-in-law wants her to accompany her on her visits to all the VIPs in Delhi, "but it's hardly my line"; noting in a postscript that Catherine [probably Galbraith] is trying to enlist film critics on their behalf before she leaves.