BIB_ID
460345
Accession number
MA 23840.1672
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28.6 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Year from reference to this letter in a letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant dated October 19, 1992 (cataloged separately as MA 23840.1673).
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory, c/o Merchant-Ivory Productions, 46 Lexington St., London W.1, ENGLAND.Reporting that the "shooting is going well"; looking forward to daily rushes on Saturday and "calling you on Sunday" ("It is a nice ritual"); enclosing an item from the Hollywood Reporter; asking if Jhabvala "received my letter from Cologne?"; sending a particular item to Jhabvala; asking that Jhabvala not send another particular item but to "bring it with you".
Formerly located in a typescript copy of the screenplay of The Remains of the Day (see MA 9288).
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory, c/o Merchant-Ivory Productions, 46 Lexington St., London W.1, ENGLAND.Reporting that the "shooting is going well"; looking forward to daily rushes on Saturday and "calling you on Sunday" ("It is a nice ritual"); enclosing an item from the Hollywood Reporter; asking if Jhabvala "received my letter from Cologne?"; sending a particular item to Jhabvala; asking that Jhabvala not send another particular item but to "bring it with you".
Formerly located in a typescript copy of the screenplay of The Remains of the Day (see MA 9288).
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Discussing possible changes to dialogue in the screenplay of The Remains of the Day, with reference to specific scenes and screenplay page numbers; mentioning her notes on Surviving Picasso, The Remains of the Day, and Howards End; discussing books she read "25-30 years ago (and will now read again)", including "a volume of P.'s paintings: 1939-1946 I bought in '47 or '48".
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