BIB_ID
450317
Accession number
MA 23840.348
Creator
Rahman, N. M. N. (Nazrul M. N.), sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.3 cm + envelope
Notes
On letterhead from the Consulate General of India in New York.
Addressed to Mrs. R. Jhabvala, 1A, Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India; postmark illegible.
Envelope annotated by James Ivory circa 2021: An invitation to visit a tea plantation in India to Ruth, from Nazrul Rahman-- later, he would appear in "Autobiography of a Princess" as the dissolute maharaja caught in a sex scandal at the Savoy Hotel in London."
Handwritten postscript: "P.S. When in Delhi I tried to speak to you on the telephone to thank you for the Christmas Card. Thanks. Rahman."
Addressed to Mrs. R. Jhabvala, 1A, Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India; postmark illegible.
Envelope annotated by James Ivory circa 2021: An invitation to visit a tea plantation in India to Ruth, from Nazrul Rahman-- later, he would appear in "Autobiography of a Princess" as the dissolute maharaja caught in a sex scandal at the Savoy Hotel in London."
Handwritten postscript: "P.S. When in Delhi I tried to speak to you on the telephone to thank you for the Christmas Card. Thanks. Rahman."
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Re-extending the Tea Board's invitation to tour "the tea growing areas of your choice" to research a film script for Merchant Ivory, in case his previous letter, posted from Calcutta, was not received.
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