BIB_ID
453619
Accession number
MA 23840.922
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 26.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Year from postmark.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y., U.S.A., postmarked March 5, 1971.
The term "toad" is Jhabvala family slang, adopted by Ivory and Merchant, for a pretty, well brought-up woman with little originality or intelligence.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y., U.S.A., postmarked March 5, 1971.
The term "toad" is Jhabvala family slang, adopted by Ivory and Merchant, for a pretty, well brought-up woman with little originality or intelligence.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Asking Ivory to add $20 to the application packet she is sending him and send it on to Stanford University; discussing various American universities Renana and Polly [Renana's boyfriend] are applying to; describing how unhappy Renana is at Delhi University, "surrounded by the most depressing toads"; supposing "Jennifer has written to you by now and told you all about the film and sent you reviews. I haven't seen one single Bombay review yet"; asserting "Indian reviews are simply not worth reading. Ismail says, quite correctly, that they just don't know how to write"; decrying the "hollow, forced content" of most Indian film reviews, contrasted with Amita Malik's work-- "her instincts are non-existent, or rather quite common and vulgar, & her sensibilities are coarse but at least she trusts herself to express them"; recounting in great detail a horrific event concerning one of the Jhabvala's dogs and her ill-fated puppies.
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