BIB_ID
454860
Accession number
MA 23840.1225
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Year from postmark.
Aerogramme was opened along the wrong edge, splitting the main body of the text.
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, and postmarked January 13, 1974.
Thanking her for her three letters on "The Wild Party" [see MA 23840.1221], which Merchant forwarded to him in California-- "What you say is very useful and I'm grateful to have it"; elaborating on his thoughts and ideas for the project, including changing the name of the leading man to "Dale Sword"; reassuring her that "I've worked out the 'massacre' at the end for myself so that the right people can be killed in the right way and have it be believable"; imagining the real-life scene of enraged crowds hauling a highly flammable nitrate print of a Fatty Arbuckle film out into the street and setting it on fire.
Aerogramme was opened along the wrong edge, splitting the main body of the text.
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, and postmarked January 13, 1974.
Thanking her for her three letters on "The Wild Party" [see MA 23840.1221], which Merchant forwarded to him in California-- "What you say is very useful and I'm grateful to have it"; elaborating on his thoughts and ideas for the project, including changing the name of the leading man to "Dale Sword"; reassuring her that "I've worked out the 'massacre' at the end for myself so that the right people can be killed in the right way and have it be believable"; imagining the real-life scene of enraged crowds hauling a highly flammable nitrate print of a Fatty Arbuckle film out into the street and setting it on fire.
Provenance
James Ivory.
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