BIB_ID
450231
Accession number
MA 23840.332a
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 January 11
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 21.2 cm
Notes
Carbon copy on onionskin paper.
Enclosed in a letter from Ismail Merchant to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated January 11, 1967 [see MA 23840.332].
Enclosed in a letter from Ismail Merchant to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated January 11, 1967 [see MA 23840.332].
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Complaining to American Express's New York office about the "Shakespeare Wallah" prints that are still stuck in customs in India, and insisting that they contact their Bombay office to expedite the matter immediately; dropping the names of Catherine Freeman, wife of the British High Commissioner, Prime MInister Indira Gandhi, and the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in the process.
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