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Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1967 January 9 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
450233
Accession number
MA 23840.331
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 January 9
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 30.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Handwritten addenda to top and bottom of first page.
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked January 11, 1967.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Discussing in detail some possible scenes in the "Shakespeare Wallah" sequel involving Guy Fawkes celebrations; pointing out that Felicity Kendal would not be believable as a model in the current fashion climate; citing reviews of Foo (Felicity Kendal) and "The Householder," and his father's recognition by the Dinuba Chamber of Commerce; describing some television programs on "Swinging London" and Mary Quant and Vidal Sassoon and musing on how they could be included in the atmosphere of the sequel; describing his impressions of Hope Cooke, the last queen of the kingdom of Sikkim, from a documentary he saw about her; saying she reminds him of Leela Naidu-- "just typing that name and my hand trembles, after five years"; in handwritten additions, quoting a passage from "Remembrance of Things Past," and musing on a possible country fair sequence for the sequel.