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Letter from James Ivory, Paris, France, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 October 23 : typescript signed, with corrections in ink.

BIB_ID
451190
Accession number
MA 23840.663
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1970 October 23
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Year from later annotation by James Ivory, "10/23/70".
The photos mentioned in the letter are no longer present.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Stating that the enclosed photos are for the Illustrated Weekly and the "imaginary interview"; saying Ismail (Merchant) will send others; suggesting some additions to the interview; saying Ismail is sending production stills of The Householders, Shakespeare Wallah, and Guru, but that they're lacking pictures of Jennifer (Kendal); asking if she can go over the pictures with Kushwant (Singh) beforehand; saying he's going to Ireland tomorrow for three days before returning to New York; saying he has a lot to tell her about Nirad Chaudhuri; describing his visit to Oxford where he saw Siegbert (Prawer), Ruth's brother, his wife Helga, and their children; saying it was "a good thing for me to have made that little film [i.e. Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization] now for the BBC" and describing how worth-while the experience was, especially working with Walter Lassaly.