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Letter from Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1966 May 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
449129
Accession number
MA 23840.276
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1966 May 20
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 aerogramme (2 pages) ; 30.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, and postmarked May 20, 1966.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Discussing the ongoing negotiations for the distribution of "Shakespeare Wallah" with Fox; saying plans are definite for a film of "Vertical and Horizontal," for which he is recruiting more "budhis" "to help us in various ways"; saying Columbia Records is bringing out an album of the music from "Shakespeare Wallah"; saying that Erik Ross's "dedication" [i.e. christening, for which Merchant was one of two god-fathers] is on the 29th and he is very excited to be a god-father; promising to relate an "funny incident" involving Jim and the baby in another letter.