BIB_ID
454057
Accession number
MA 23842.3
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) : illustration ; 27.1 x 21.5 cm
Notes
A photocopy of a letter written on both sides of a notecard featuring a reproduction of a photograph of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawaii, along with a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Island Rose," which was written for her. Ivory's text is written over the text of the poem.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Laying out "what I would like to do about 'The Aspern Papers'"; describing how Gil Donaldson would like to make it as a T.V. movie with Olivia de Havilland; suggesting that Ivory and Jhabvala collaborate on the script "in the absence of money," as the fact that she is involved will make it easier for Donaldson to raise funds for the project; assuring her that "it wouldn't be too strenuous a task for you"; describing his idea to change the setting of the story to Venice in 1950-- the year Ivory first visited the city-- which would also change the period of the papers in question to the 1890s rather than "the days of Lord Byron"; enclosing "the newspaper write-up about 'Heat and Dust' in Klamath Falls"; telling her that, watching it again, he felt "that almost in no other film of mine had I gone so far in recreating a vanished world"; relating how a friend described the screening audience as "75% of the educated and more sophisticated class of people from Kamath Falls ... Size of audience-- 250; population of Klamath Falls, 18,000."
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