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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, 1971 May 2 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
453878
Accession number
MA 23840.939
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 26.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Year from contents, James Ivory's note on verso.
Written in reply to the announcement that Merchant and Ivory are embarking on a film project in America, which will eventually be called "Savages."
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory & Ismail Merchant, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y., U.S.A.; postmark illegible.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Offering congratulations on their new project, saying "it sounds terribly interesting" and "seems to have just the sort of things you're marvellous at"; admitting that she had promised to "send you the Delhi jackal howls [i.e., the Delhi reviews of "Bombay Talkie"], but "I don't want to because I don't want any shadow like that to fall on you now"; noting that not sending the reviews now also means she doesn't have to read them either; imagining their frantic pre-production activities, and hoping they are also "frantically happy."