BIB_ID
450829
Accession number
MA 23840.638
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, 1970 August 17
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 34.4 x 21.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Date from postmark and associated materials; letter dated "Monday".
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked "16 8 70".
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked "16 8 70".
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Recounting a near-death experience in which he was almost "mowed down by a plane taxiing out onto the runway", his investigation of the control tower, and his complaint to the Indian Airlines officials; describing the Spanish tourists at his hotel and reminiscing about the first time he saw Spanish tourists in Rome in 1950; describing a fashion show he attended with Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, and others; stating that he's coming to Delhi Friday morning.
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