BIB_ID
450009
Accession number
MA 23840.535
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1970 April 2
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 22.5 x 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope stamped, addressed to "Mr. James Ivory, Taj Mahal Hotel, Apollo Bunder, Bombay-1", postmarked "[?]-4-70".
Dated "Wednesday"; date inferred from postmark, handwritten note on envelope, and perpetual calendar.
Dated "Wednesday"; date inferred from postmark, handwritten note on envelope, and perpetual calendar.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Asking him to look at scene 34-B; writing out the dialogue, pulled in part from older versions of the scene, that can be used in that scene between Hari and Lucia; noting that she is "also sending you the Mala scene, though I haven't thought about it much"; wondering if they really do need to establish the ashram and whether they could make the film work with only scene 34;
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