BIB_ID
454861
Accession number
MA 23840.1226
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
2 items (4 pages) ; 18.8 x 24.9 cm
Notes
Year from postmark.
Written across two aerogrammes.
The book Jhabvala discusses in this letter became Ivory's "Autobiography of a Princess, Also Being the Adventures of an American Film Director in the Land of the Maharajas" (1975).
Aerogrammes addressed to Mr. James Ivory, (Apt. 12-G), 400 East 52nd St., New York, N.Y., 10022, U.S.A., postmarked January 17, 1974.
Written across two aerogrammes.
The book Jhabvala discusses in this letter became Ivory's "Autobiography of a Princess, Also Being the Adventures of an American Film Director in the Land of the Maharajas" (1975).
Aerogrammes addressed to Mr. James Ivory, (Apt. 12-G), 400 East 52nd St., New York, N.Y., 10022, U.S.A., postmarked January 17, 1974.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Telling him she has no interest in or affinity for writing the text for the Princess book; suggesting he ask Madhur to do it, as she has been researching the subject and "probably [has] more affection for and patience with Royal India than I have"; giving him her opinion on the appropriateness of the sumptuous jeweled necklace that Madhur has chosen for the film; chiding him for his clichéd choice of a wizened old servant for the Princess; discussing in great detail the party in "The Wild Party," its background and atmosphere; asking, "Are you really suck with that mass killing at the end?"; hoping that "perhaps after seeing the Mission Inn [location] you'll have come on a wonderful aesthetic way of staging it which will make it into-- well, a ballet instead of the piece of trash it is now."
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