BIB_ID
455231
Accession number
MA 23840.1380
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 22.2 x 14.4 cm, folded (22.2 x 24.4 cm unfolded) + envelope
Notes
Year from destination postmark on verso of envelope.
Written during the period when Ivory and Jhabvala were rewriting Walter Marks' script for "The Wild Party," which was adapted from Joseph Moncure March's poem of the same name.
Envelope sent registered mail, addressed to Mr. James Ivory, Apt. 12-G, 400 East 52nd St. New York, N.Y. 10022, U.S.A.; Indian postmark illegible; New York postmark January 29, 1974.
Written during the period when Ivory and Jhabvala were rewriting Walter Marks' script for "The Wild Party," which was adapted from Joseph Moncure March's poem of the same name.
Envelope sent registered mail, addressed to Mr. James Ivory, Apt. 12-G, 400 East 52nd St. New York, N.Y. 10022, U.S.A.; Indian postmark illegible; New York postmark January 29, 1974.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Mapping out the structure of the original poem "The Wild Party" into seven "stages," and marveling that Marks' script completely ignores this "very useful structure"; making suggestions and commenting on Ivory's ideas for the new script.
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