BIB_ID
450252
Accession number
MA 23840.344
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, 1967 February 28
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 aerogramme (2 pages) ; 26.7 x 19 cm
Notes
Domestic aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmark illegible.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing the many problems he is having trying to arrange for the premiere and distribution of "Shakespeare Wallah" in India, including booking theaters, figuring out who will be handling the distribution-- Fox or an Indian distributor-- communicating with Catherine Freeman, R.D. Bansal, Prabhu, and the censors; telling her he was sick enough the previous night at a friend's house that he had to be carried home; telling her not to worry.
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