BIB_ID
458053
Accession number
MA 23840.1580
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 29.6 x 21 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on a piece of typescript which reads: (Lefranc's) / x / She was forty-five and he was twenty-three, and they were / perfectly happy 'till her lawyer came and took her back / to Newport.
Jean-Pierre Mahot
Artforum letterhead envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Apt. 14G, 400 East 5nd [sic] Street, New York, 10022; not stamped or postmarked. Handwritten across the top of the envelope in different ink: "(Ruth-- There is also a package for Ismail downstairs in your building)"
Jean-Pierre Mahot
Artforum letterhead envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Apt. 14G, 400 East 5nd [sic] Street, New York, 10022; not stamped or postmarked. Handwritten across the top of the envelope in different ink: "(Ruth-- There is also a package for Ismail downstairs in your building)"
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Telling her he is "quite too drunk to write sensibly just now" after a "boistrous dinner" with Merchant, Rita [Mangat?], and Mark; describing Merchant making Jean Pierre [Mahot, a producer on "Quartet"] sign "all sorts of dread documents" while Ian Smyth looks on "murmuring very English things in the background to intimidate him"; asking her to deposit the check from Filmways-- "(Yes!)"; relating a story from Jeremiah about how Ivory's tenant Julie Taylor has been keeping bags of sand in her freezer and rubber-banded to the thermostat; noting that "[i]t gives me such pleasure to use one of Tony's [Korner's] envelopes."
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