BIB_ID
451095
Accession number
MA 23840.432
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, 1968 July 12
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.2 x 20.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked July 12, 1968.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing his new health regimen at "a Parsi-run clinic" in Bombay, where he gets a daily massage and then is taken to "a wooden box lock me in [sic] and the double heater is switched on-- only my head sticks out ... and I perspire for 15 minutes"; telling her the editing of "The Guru" is going well and they expect to be done by July 23; asking her to come down to Bombay on the 24th or 25th of July with Jhab; pointing out that the premiere of "Pretty Polly" [a.k.a. "A Matter of Innocence," Shashi's first Western film] is on the 24th and they could go to it all together.
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