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Letter from James Ivory, Berkeley, California, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1967 August 23 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
450543
Accession number
MA 23840.374
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
Berkeley, California, 1967 August 23
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20 x 14.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Notes on envelope in James Ivory's hand, circa 2022.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked August 24, 1967.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Commenting on "the kinds of thoughts that come to me" at 3:30AM, and entreating her not to do any work on screenplays at that time of night; describing an enclosure which is no longer present; stating that "Bismillah Khan has a school at Banaras [Varanasi]," and commenting on the oddness of the locale.