BIB_ID
449044
Accession number
MA 23840.513a
Creator
Bolam, Claire, sender.
Display Date
Cambridgeshire, England, 1970 January 14
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.1 x 20 cm
Notes
Address on top of sheet: "5. Union Place. Wisbech. Cambridgeshire. England".
Enclosed in letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 February 14 (MA 23840.513).
Enclosed in letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 February 14 (MA 23840.513).
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Expressing admiration for Jhabvala's work; providing her biographical background; offering an idea for a story based on her experiences ("The whole of my life was changed for me -- very probably for the worse -- by what happened to me in U.P. [Uttar Pradesh] and the Andamans and Benares during the last War.") and asking her to write it; asking whether she knows of "a Mr. and Mrs. John Shankar Lal and their family" in New Delhi.
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