BIB_ID
460341
Accession number
MA 23840.1669
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2018.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 29.6 x 21 cm + envelope
Notes
Letter dated September 24, 1992.
Envelope addressed to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 6, INDIA, postmarked September 25, 1992.
Envelope and sheet from the Hotel im Wasserturm, Köln.
Written on envelope top flap: Ismail Merchant, 2 Orchard Court, Portman Sq, London W1.
The episode of 60 Minutes broadcast on September 20, 1992 (season 25, episode 02) featured a segment on Merchant and Ivory.
Envelope addressed to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 32 Alipur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 6, INDIA, postmarked September 25, 1992.
Envelope and sheet from the Hotel im Wasserturm, Köln.
Written on envelope top flap: Ismail Merchant, 2 Orchard Court, Portman Sq, London W1.
The episode of 60 Minutes broadcast on September 20, 1992 (season 25, episode 02) featured a segment on Merchant and Ivory.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Reporting that he and Vanessa [Redgrave] are in Cologne for the Cologne Film Festival, the opening night film of which is Howards End; describing the "hi-tech" hotel at which he is staying; remarking, "This is the city you were born" [sic]; reporting that "[t]he shooting is going well", with mention of a particular aspect of it as being "like an obsession with [Jim] now"; stating: "I doubt whether he can ever make a film like Roseland or Autobiography"; reporting on business matters, including two checks to be deposited into Jhabvala's account; mentioning, "Tony Hopkins is in great spirit"; promising, "I will write to you about Sixty Minutes which was broadcast last Sunday".
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