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Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1967 February 21 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
450253
Accession number
MA 23840.341
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 February 21
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Typed on Merchant Ivory letterhead.
Envelope stamped, addressed to Cyrus Jhabvala, Esq., 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked February 21, 1967.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Introducing "statement #2" (enclosed) for "Shakespeare Wallah"; discussing Merchant's activities in India regarding "Shakespeare Wallah" and expressing concern about getting the film past the Indian censors; debating the relative advantages of submitting it to film censors in Calcutta as opposed to the film censors in Bombay; hoping Jhab received "your pentels" [presumably Pentel pens] which Ivory sent to India with Merchant's suits; asking if Jhab will stay with them when he comes to New York, and if he would like to see a doctor while he's there for his fainting; asking Jhab to dissuade Merchant from going to Kabul; saying Paramount should pay for both of them to go, and to India as well.