BIB_ID
453997
Accession number
MA 23840.981
Creator
Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2023.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.4 x 20.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Date from postmark.
The book Chatwin was working on at the time was "The Nomadic Alternative," which Tom Maschler at Jonathan Cape declined to publish in 1972.
"Mr. C" may be a reference to Indian author Nirad Chaudhuri.
Envelope stamped, addressed to James Ivory Esq., Harbottle and Lewis, 34 South Moulton Street, London W.1. Angleterre, postmarked August 2, 1971.
The book Chatwin was working on at the time was "The Nomadic Alternative," which Tom Maschler at Jonathan Cape declined to publish in 1972.
"Mr. C" may be a reference to Indian author Nirad Chaudhuri.
Envelope stamped, addressed to James Ivory Esq., Harbottle and Lewis, 34 South Moulton Street, London W.1. Angleterre, postmarked August 2, 1971.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Assuming that "all is well" as he's heard "no alarm calls," and that by the time this letter reaches London, Ivory will probably be in New York; recounting how long a note from another friend took to reach him; saying he is looking forward to Ivory's "acerbic comments" about Tangier and asking if he met a man there named Yves Vidal "who owns some castle"; reporting that the Mistral is blowing, he has a stomach ache, the house is very hot-- "like a gas oven"-- but he has made progress with his book; expressing exasperation with the "Aryan Nonsense" in an unidentified book he has read by a "Mr. C"; telling Ivory that he will leave Aubenas-les-Alpes on the 18th for eight days in Porto Ercole, and then go back to England; vowing to never again write "anything longer than a very few pages"; recalling "that last day" when "we were all under a cloud"-- "You were anxious, I was anxious"; saying he won't be able to come to America before September 15, "but I have really no idea," and claiming it's all up to Tom Maschler at Jonathan Cape.
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