BIB_ID
449211
Accession number
MA 23840.285
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1966 November 2
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 29.5 x 21 cm + envelope
Notes
Page 1 typed on Merchant Ivory onionskin letterhead; page 2 is handwritten.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked [illegible], 1966; handwritten note by James Ivory on recto, addressing the contents of the letter.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked [illegible], 1966; handwritten note by James Ivory on recto, addressing the contents of the letter.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing an encounter with "The Red Brute" and a boorish potential investor he brought to town with him; recounting an amusing encounter with a young woman Lillian Ross was considering casting in "Vertical and Horizontal" and William Shawn; saying he has found two actors for "V&H" that he likes, Gene Saks and Salome Jens.; asking why she hasn't written, and saying "Yesterday was Foo's T.V. play"; referring, in a handwritten postscript, to the enclosed press release "from Ismail's salad days."
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