Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1973 July 23 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
458826
Accession number
MA 23840.1175
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, India, postmarked July 24, 1973.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing the house used for "The Great Gatsby" and his visit to the set; repeating his assertion that the houses in the Hamptons are more appropriate to "Gatsby" than those in Newport; asking what she has been thinking about the film ideas he has told her about; relating "something funny" that happened while Shashi was in town, where a moviegoer mistook Shashi for an usher and kept insisting that he turn down the air conditioning in the theater even after they told her he was not; expressing dismay about Lillian and her reusal to pay back the money she owes them.