Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Ismail Merchant, Cannes, France, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1979 May 15 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
455230
Accession number
MA 23840.1555a
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
The last paragraph and a half are handwritten.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
announcing "The British Film Producers [Association] have finally accepted the fact that the Europeans is the British entry at the [C]annes Film Festival"; telling her Ivory is currently meeting with Gaumont about the film, and he is planning a large dinner party at their own villa tonight; describing the villa's environs; describing some confusion with an attendee named Bernice Richards; enumerating all the guests at their villa-- "Humphrey, Connie, Michele, Nick Young, and tonight Roger Wingate and Jennifer Wingate"; telling her he loved "Manhattan," and liked seeing Wally in it; noting that "[t]he scandal of the festival is the absence of Satyajit Ray, who refused to fly coach; saying he is sorry to have missed her birthday celebration-- "Jim said you all got drunk."