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Letter from James Ivory, Dinuba, California, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1966 December 26 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
449242
Accession number
MA 23840.293
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
Dinuba, California, 1966 December 26
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 29.5 x 21 cm + envelope
Notes
Typed on onionskin (pages 1 and 2) and blue stationary (page 3).
A small newspaper clipping from the New York Times, recounting the arrest of Sanjay Gandhi in England for driving without a license, is affixed to the upper left corner of page 1.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Thanking them for some gifts, and recounting how they were carried off by a neighborhood dog in Dinuba along with a plum pudding and had to be retrieved; describing his and Merchant's current peaceful lifestyle in Dinuba, and their plans to visit Los Angeles to meet with Paramount soon; saying he's working on the script for the "Shakespeare Wallah" sequel; giving an update on the status of Lillian Ross's work on the script for "Vertical and Horizontal"; expressing his discomfort with the Paramount deal in terms of loss of creative control; referring once more to "the Red Brute"; describing Antonioni's "Blow Up," which he saw in New York before they left for California and what they can take from it for the SW sequel; expressing misgivings and tentative optimism regarding their professional future; describing an incident where he was eating tacos and a hot fudge sundae; describing Erik Ross' first birthday party.