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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Satyajit Ray, Kolkata, India, to Ismail Merchant, 1966 January 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
449114
Accession number
MA 23840.255
Creator
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992, sender.
Display Date
Kolkata, India, 1966 January 6
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2023.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Written on Satyajit Ray's personal stationery.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Wishing Merchant a happy New Year; saying the London run of "Shakespeare Wallah" must have been successful, and asking about its distribution in the U.S and India; suggesting a couple of Indian distributors; giving Merchant an update on the album project with Columbia Records; telling Merchant that the adaptation of "A Passage to India" ("the Forster project") has fallen through.