BIB_ID
457866
Accession number
MA 23840.1548
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope simply addressed to RPJ. According to the contents, the letter was hand-carried to India by Ivory's friend Dorie, probably Dorothea Swope.
The uncle Ivory writes about in this letter is Dick Carter [see MA 23840.1536].
The uncle Ivory writes about in this letter is Dick Carter [see MA 23840.1536].
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Saying he is handing this letter to "Dorie" because it will get there faster that way; telling her he will be returning to California next week; recounting the odd spectacle of his uncle's recent funeral in Berkeley, and conflicts with "the woman who inherited my aunt's house"; saying he talked to Merchant in India, who seemed "in a good mood," and announcing "[w]e have won our court case with that lab in London which lost bits of the Princess film"; asking about the state of "the Jane Austen project."
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