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Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1966 April 1 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
449134
Accession number
MA 23840.271
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1966 April 1
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Typed on Merchant Ivory letterhead.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, and postmarked April 6, 1966.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Expressing how pleased he is with Ruth's first draft of "the Ustad film" [later, "The Guru"]; discussing in detail why he feels the main character shouldn't be homosexual; mulling over various details of the plot and characters; describing, at length and in detail, the opening night of "Shakespeare Wallah" in New York, with Foo (Felicity Kendal) and Merchant; laying out some details of the film's runs in New York and London.