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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1970 November 12: autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
450041
Accession number
MA 23840.580
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1970 November 12
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.8 x 24.9 cm
Notes
Aerogramme.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Asking him to buy Jhab "one weekday suit" and "one set of warm winter pants and one nice sweater"; asking him to buy her a new pen ("I think I want to try a Parker again"); complaining about the Sheaffer pens she's been using ("after a time something goes wrong with the filling tube and they just don't fill anymore"); asking him to send her updates about all the film's reviews the morning after the premiere and the film's box office after the first weekend; laying out a schedule for additional telegrams about the film's performance; alluding to "some small censor trouble--Shashi [Kapoor] will tell you all about it" and describing the journey the film will be taking between Delhi and Bombay as a result; expressing relief that although it needs to be in Delhi to be screened for "ministers and secretaries", "there will be no time for it to circulate among Delhi's intelligentsia"; declaring that "The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach" may be one of her favorite films ever and explaining why the structure and the concept appealed to her; telling him the process of the New Yorker buying a story of hers that she had previously forgotten about and had, after recently rediscovering it, sent to her agent on a whim; sending her "best wishes for the 18th".