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Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to Ismail Merchant, Cochin, India, 1997 December 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
458593
Accession number
MA 23840.1690
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 25.3 cm (unfolded); 18 x 12.9 cm (folded)
Notes
Written on a greeting card published by the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), the organization Jhabvala's daughter Renana has been associated with since 1977.
Year and locations of correspondents from James Ivory's note.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Thanking him for a gift of glacé apricots, and for "your Bollywood article"; telling him they all went to see "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" on Renana's birthday and enjoyed it (except for Jhab); thinking of Merchant in Cochin about to begin shooting another film, and wishing she could travel down to visit him, but with his parents traveling, her grandson Uday needs to be looked after; hoping someday to travel south and see "some of the great temples"; wishing him luck and looking forward to seeing the footage "in the editing room at Claverack."