BIB_ID
458087
Accession number
MA 23840.1596
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 12.5 x 28 cm (folded); 25 x 18 cm (unfolded) + envelope
Notes
Dated "Monday"; date derived from this, postmark, and perpetual calendar.
Written in Claverack, New York on a greeting card with an image of a 17th century Florentine mosaic depicting some flowering bulbs in a vase; mailed in Hudson, New York.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipur Road, Delhi, India 110054; metered in Hudson, New York; meter date February 21, 1984.
Written in Claverack, New York on a greeting card with an image of a 17th century Florentine mosaic depicting some flowering bulbs in a vase; mailed in Hudson, New York.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipur Road, Delhi, India 110054; metered in Hudson, New York; meter date February 21, 1984.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing his current work "doing all the little things that had to be done, but none of the big ones" and Jeremiah working noisily downstairs then coming "to slump in front of the TV"; saying he will be visiting George Trow soon, and soon after to London; complaining about his "about satisfactory" passport photo; feeling he needs to have Walter Lassally light him for photographs now; offering some thoughts on "The Bostonians."
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