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Letter from Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1967 January 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
450232
Accession number
MA 23840.332
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 January 11
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.2 cm
Notes
Typed on Merchant Ivory letterhead.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked January [?], 1967.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Announcing that both "The Householder" and "Shakespeare Wallah" are making critics' top ten lists for 1966-- "Only now we should make some money!"; turning his attention to the issue of the "Shakespeare Wallah" prints that are still stuck in customs in India, and enlisting Ruth, Catherine Freeman, American Express, Mitra, and the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in trying to extricate them; enclosing a copy of his letter to American Express regarding the prints; thanking her again for the Christmas/birthday gifts, and sending love to her daughters.