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 James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1979 January 19 : typescript signed.

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].
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."