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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1971 March 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
453620
Accession number
MA 23840.923
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.8 x 14.5 cm folded (22.8 x 29 cm unfolded) + envelope
Notes
Year from James Ivory's sticky note.
Envelope stamped (registered mail), addressed to Mr. James Ivory, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y. U.S.A., postmarked March 6, 1971.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Enclosing the documents for Ivory to send on to Stanford University [see MA 23840.922], a review of "Bombay Talkie" from "Screen" which illustrates her earlier [see MA 23840.922] comments on the poor quality of reviews in India, and her royalty check from "The Guru" [see MA 23840.917]; asking about "your friend Bruce Chetwynd [i.e. Bruce Chatwin]," and whether a story she heard from Penelope Betjeman about him and his wife was true-- "So do tell me [if it's true] (unless you'd rather not)."