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.

Postcard from Ismail Merchant, Bombay, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, New York, New York, 1993 March 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
460339
Accession number
MA 23840.1675
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2018.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 10.6 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Postcard dated March 18, 1993.
Place of writing from postmark.
Postcard addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus Jhabvala, Apt 7G, 400 East 52nd Street, New York City 10022, USA.
Postcard verso: image of Ghiyas-ud din Tughlaq's tomb at Tughlaqabad.
Note from James Ivory: "Finish 'In Custody'" and "His thoughts before of never, or rarely, directing again have been put behind him as he searches for a new story." "His thoughts before" refers to MA 23840.1674.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Reporting that filming has finished on In Custody and that "[i]t has been amazing experience more so because of Bhopal"; recommending strongly they visit Bhopal when next in India, "an experience which you must not miss"; discussing his "work as a director"