BIB_ID
458406
Accession number
MA 23840.1650
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 21.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Written in Los Angeles [see contents] on MIP New York letterhead, but postmarked in New York.
Doordarshan is the Indian state-owned television channel.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi, India, and postmarked March 2, 1988.
Doordarshan is the Indian state-owned television channel.
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi, India, and postmarked March 2, 1988.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Telling her that Ivory left L.A. this morning to shoot the Ralph Lauren commercial near San Francisco; saying they "have been busy casting Slaves of New York and he is sending her a copy of the script; noting he will be in L.A. for the next three days "to negotiate and sign our agreement with TriStar" for the shoot beginning March 21st; asking if she has received the notes Ivory sent her on "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" and asking how the script is coming; noting that the expected date of broadcast for "Heat and Dust" in India on Doordarshan has been changed; telling her about purchases he has and is planning to make for the Orchard Court apartment; assuring her he has been trying to get M.F. Keynes[?] to arrange a furnished apartment for her by the middle of March but that they are "incredibly slow"; asking her to write and give him her travel schedule.
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