BIB_ID
450317
Accession number
MA 23840.348
Creator
Rahman, N. M. N. (Nazrul M. N.), sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 March 13
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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