BIB_ID
453784
Accession number
MA 23840.867
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Notes
Year from context.
Addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarks illegible.
Color picture postcard; image on verso is "The Royal Pavillion, Brighton. The Banqueting Room."
Addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarks illegible.
Color picture postcard; image on verso is "The Royal Pavillion, Brighton. The Banqueting Room."
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Commenting on finally having "gained admittance" to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton on the third try, and noting how "splendid" it looks after a recent refurbishment; calling the place "the romanticized European view of the Orient ... a bit hallucinatory, looking like a record cover in places."
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