BIB_ID
456923
Accession number
MA 23840.1486
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
The "Princess book" Ivory refers to is his "Autobiography of a Princess, also Being the Adventures of an American Film Director in the Land of the Maharajas" (1975).
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Discussing the artwork for Jhabvala's "How I Became a Holy Mother" and his correspondence with artist Ron Bowen about it; asking Leeston to forward several copies of his "Princess book" to some friends in France and Belgium; providing news of Jhabvala's and Merchant's current activities in New York, including Merchant's "planting dynamite under Joan Kahn."
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