BIB_ID
450039
Accession number
MA 23840.596
Creator
Azra, sender.
Display Date
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir), India, 1970 January 8
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.2 x 19.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope stamped, addressed to "Ismail Merchant (film producer) c/o Shashi Kapoor (film star) 122 [text likely written in Urdu or Kashmiri], Bombay 26", postmarked.
Sender identifies herself as "Miss Azra, d/o [possibly "daughter of"?] kh Abdul Qadir, Ex Session Judge, Barzalla Baghat, Srinagar (Kasmir)."
Sender identifies herself as "Miss Azra, d/o [possibly "daughter of"?] kh Abdul Qadir, Ex Session Judge, Barzalla Baghat, Srinagar (Kasmir)."
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Requesting a reply; telling him that she has seen many of his movies and that he is handsome; wondering why he didn't become an actor; describing a photo she has seen of him; telling him that she is his "greatest fan"; asking him to be her pen pal; asking for his address in India and in the United States; telling him that she is proud of him for being "the only muslim [sic] who is producing film in U.S."; informing him about her background and her own writing and promising to write more about herself in her next letter; repeating her request for a reply; pleading for a reply ("if not my friends make fun of me").
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