BIB_ID
457066
Accession number
MA 23840.1519
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 30.4 x 20.5 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Apt. 14G, 400 East 52nd Street, New York 10022 U.S.A., postmarked November 2, 1977.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing his trip to London and the results of screening "Roseland" for critics and potential investors like Penelope Houston, John Gillett, Malvyn Bragg and John Blyton from London Weekend Television; discussing possibly casting Lilia Skala and Felicity Kendal in "Heat and Dust"; reporting back from his conversation with Robin Dalton about pay scales for writers on similar projects with LWT; telling her that "[t]he wedding went off very well and they [Merchant's family] were all very happy to have me here"; reporting that he has spoken to and will be seeing Jhab in Delhi on the 10th, and that Jhab is "very much looking forward" to seeing her when she returns to India in January; hoping that she enjoyed her cross-country trip; mentioning a conversation regarding casting Faye Dunaway as Baroness Munster, and having seen "Jane" [Jennifer Kendal] and Shashi, and Jhabvala's mother.
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