BIB_ID
458611
Accession number
MA 23840.1705
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Accompanying envelope inscription reads: Copy of a letter from JI to Don Bachardy, Christopher Isherwood's partner of fifty years, dated March, 2002. This date is either incorrect-- "Chris & Don: A Love Story" did not open until 2007-- or the inscription refers to another letter not present in the collection.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Relating how he recently watched the documentary "Chris & Don: A Love Story"-- about the relationship between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy-- and reflecting on his own "great, decades long, central love" and the likelihood and luck of having found such a relationship in the first place; asking how Bachardy feels now, when he feels he became who he is, and if he has always been that person; complimenting Michael York's voiceover in the film and asking Bachardy to pass on his compliments if he sees Michael.
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