BIB_ID
458614
Accession number
MA 23840.1707a
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.5 x 12.1 cm
Notes
A modern adhesive bookplate with a profile silhouette of Ivory reading a book, framed by an old-fashioned window.
Accompanies a note from Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [MA 23840.1707], along with a few other items, but it is unclear whether they are related.
Typed note on verso reads: I've been made to look here as if I have curly hair, and I don't mind. There's now a resemblance to the American poet Frank O'Hara. I don't mind that either, as I admire him very much (and his life). Once, in the early 1960s I stupidly passed up a chance of bathing with him in the nude in a freezing New Hampshire Sacred Lake on a hot summer's day.
Accompanies a note from Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [MA 23840.1707], along with a few other items, but it is unclear whether they are related.
Typed note on verso reads: I've been made to look here as if I have curly hair, and I don't mind. There's now a resemblance to the American poet Frank O'Hara. I don't mind that either, as I admire him very much (and his life). Once, in the early 1960s I stupidly passed up a chance of bathing with him in the nude in a freezing New Hampshire Sacred Lake on a hot summer's day.
Provenance
James Ivory.
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