BIB_ID
453920
Accession number
MA 23840.957
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 postmark.
"The Mice" is Jhabvala's, Ivory's, and Merchant's affectionate nickname for Madhur Jaffrey's three small daughters, Zia, Sakina, and Meera.
Prior to India's economic liberalization in the early 1990s, Indians were subject to severe restrictions on travel and foreign exchange transactions.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory & Ismail Merchant, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y., U.S.A.; postmarked August 30, 1971.
"The Mice" is Jhabvala's, Ivory's, and Merchant's affectionate nickname for Madhur Jaffrey's three small daughters, Zia, Sakina, and Meera.
Prior to India's economic liberalization in the early 1990s, Indians were subject to severe restrictions on travel and foreign exchange transactions.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory & Ismail Merchant, 400 East 52nd St. (Apt. 12-G), New York 10022, N.Y., U.S.A.; postmarked August 30, 1971.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Informing them that she is booked on a PanAm flight to New York on the 8th of September, but she will send a telegram as well "to make assurance doubly sure"; entreating them, "Please be there as I shall lie down at the airport and die if you're not. Then you will have to phone Delhi and say 'Jhab...' and then what will you say. You'll feel very bad"; telling them that "Madhur and Mice are leaving either on the 4th or the 7th" as "Chubby Mouse suddenly got appendicitis and had to have an emergency operation"; informing them that "Ved is also leaving on the 8th but he's going to Kabul and London first and getting to New York on the 15th"; noting that she hasn't yet received her income tax clearance to travel, but her American visa was obtained with "no trouble at all"; telling them she feels "strange and disorganised," as there is really nothing that needs doing; describing the recent epidemics in Delhi, but noting that they are all vaccinated, so "I don't even have to have that done."
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