BIB_ID
458056
Accession number
MA 23840.1583
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Dated "Saturday." Date from postmark and perpetual calendar.
According to Ivory's note (see post-it), a letter from Cyrus Jhabvala to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was also enclosed in this letter [see MA 23840.1584].
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 400 East 52nd Street, Apt. 14G, New York, 10022, U.S.A.; postmarked August 28, 1982.
According to Ivory's note (see post-it), a letter from Cyrus Jhabvala to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was also enclosed in this letter [see MA 23840.1584].
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 400 East 52nd Street, Apt. 14G, New York, 10022, U.S.A.; postmarked August 28, 1982.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Enclosing "two sets of little keys"; asking her to bring him some clothes; warning her not to spill a bottle that contains ash from Mount St. Helens; setting the scene: "Ismail is in his gout chair, sitting in the sun, phoning Rita, who has entered some new sort of super-hyperchondriacal state."
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