BIB_ID
454002
Accession number
MA 23840.986
Creator
Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2023.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29.9 x 21 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.
Addressed to James Ivory Esq., Apt. 12G, 400, East 52nd St., New York City, N.Y. 1002 [sic], U.S.A., postmarked September 15, 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.
Addressed to James Ivory Esq., Apt. 12G, 400, East 52nd St., New York City, N.Y. 1002 [sic], U.S.A., postmarked September 15, 1971.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Apologizing for this "hasty note," which his wife Elizabeth is posting on her way to Boston to attend her sister's wedding; saying he is two-thirds finished with the book, and will come to New York when it is done; warning him that Elizabeth will "HOUND you for the dollars" as she is currently "penniless"; referring to an idea he plans to work on after the book, "the film about THINGS"; saying he'll see Ivory in six weeks.
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