BIB_ID
458336
Accession number
MA 23840.1628
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 26.8 x 18 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipore [sic] Road, Delhi, India, 110054, postmarked March 10, 1986.
The dinner party Ivory describes in this letter was also noted in Nadine Brozan's column "The Evening Hours" in the New York Times, March 7, 1986, page A20.
The dinner party Ivory describes in this letter was also noted in Nadine Brozan's column "The Evening Hours" in the New York Times, March 7, 1986, page A20.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Complaining about Pogi [Firoza, Jhabvala's youngest daughter] and her husband Michael's "lack of practical judgement"; describing a glamorous dinner party held in celebration of "A Room with a View" by his upstairs neighbor Sisi Cahan, at which he and Helena Bonham-Carter and Julian Sands were guests of honor; giving some notes on "Three Continents" and discussing his differing feelings regarding the film and book versions of the story; musing over the very different receptions of "Room with a View" and "Quartet."
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