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Letter from Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1967 April 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
450322
Accession number
MA 23840.356
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 April 5
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 aerogramme (2 pages) ; 30.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked April 5, 1967.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Vowing "This is my final congratulations to you & Jhab" for the success of "Shakespeare Wallah" in India; repeating the news of the great box office numbers in Bombay, and Ivory's resulting dizzy spell in New York; also vowing "This is the last time I shall speak on Shakespeare Wallah"; claiming "everything has worked out on V&H" and they are waiting on word from Paramount while "seeing lots of actors and locations etc."; asking her to "Please come [to New York]"; asking her to pass on a message to their friend David [probably David Swope, -2018] who will be in Delhi soon.