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.
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