BIB_ID
451097
Accession number
MA 23840.434
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, 1968 July 20
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.5 x 17.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Year derived from postmark, contents, and perpetual calendar. Dated on first page "Saturday."
Written on Taj Mahal Hotel letterhead, in response to Jhabvala's undated letter [see MA 23840.483] scolding them both for neglecting to make arrangements to bring her to London and for shutting her out of the post-production of "The Guru."
Envelope stamped, addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked July 22, 1968.
Written on Taj Mahal Hotel letterhead, in response to Jhabvala's undated letter [see MA 23840.483] scolding them both for neglecting to make arrangements to bring her to London and for shutting her out of the post-production of "The Guru."
Envelope stamped, addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked July 22, 1968.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Beginning somewhat wearily, "I have scarcely any reply to your irresponsible letter except to say that you're going to London, Fox is giving you a ticket, and I'm sorry I forgot to assure you of the arrangements, but not so sorry as I feel to hear you think I don't want you to have anything to do with the Guru"; asking her and Jhab to come to Bombay at the end of the first week of August, as they have a reservation [presumably for dinner] at the Taj that night and "Utpal will be here then I think"; pointing out that when he hurts her, it's "through thoughtlessness," but when she hurts him, she does it "deliberately, with a lot of thought in advance"; passing on news in the postscript of Vilayat Khan's opinion of the few scenes of "the Guru" he has seen.
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