BIB_ID
459893
Accession number
MA 23840.1719
Creator
Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2025.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Heavily corrected in pen by the sender.
Envelope addressed to Mr. James F. Ivory, c/o Merchant-Ivory Productions (MIP), 250 West 57th Street, Suite 1825, New York, N.Y., 10107, postmarked July 3, 2008.
Envelope addressed to Mr. James F. Ivory, c/o Merchant-Ivory Productions (MIP), 250 West 57th Street, Suite 1825, New York, N.Y., 10107, postmarked July 3, 2008.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Reflecting on the spiritual leader Jiddu Krishnamurti, and his relationship with Mary Zimbalist, both of whom Allilueva met; emphasizing that, in spite of being schooled to embrace Western appearances, "in the heart & soul" he remained "a Bramin [sic]"; insisting that "[a]ll those Trustees wanted to make him a Western philosopher-- which he never had been."
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