BIB_ID
454878
Accession number
MA 23840.1238
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 31.6 x 15 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked February 22, 1974.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing meeting Ava in London, sightseeing with her, and listening to her talk about food-- "I did not comment about her weight till after I heard about all her starchy food"; describing how she went to bed after dinner "and started to cry remembering Pogie [her sister Firoza] & your home and how it will never be the same for her"; telling her Ava had been expecting Jhab to visit her in England; saying he is planning to take her to a play and to visit her in Liverpool; observing "Ava is exceptional-- she needs love and friends-- I wish she were in America with us"; noting "Katherine" [probably Catherine Freeman] see Ava over Christmas.
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