Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, 1963 April 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

Telling Ivory how "enchanted" she was to read about his and Merchant's experiences in London and their "heavenly boat-ride back" to New York; commiserating over their unpleasant experience with exhibitor Bachoo Sen in London; suggesting that John Kenneth and Catherine Galbraith might help with getting "The Householder" (1963) seen, especially if John were to write about it in his popular column, "A London Diary," which even Nehru reads; asking Ivory to "transfer" the two enclosed letters (missing) to MIP letterhead and send them back for tax purposes; expressing regret that she sent a review from Shankar's Weekly that upset him, and explaining at length why she doesn't think it was Marie Seton who wrote it; listing a few contacts she has in New York who might also be helpful, like Paul Grimes, Arthur Bonner, and Santha Rama Rau; laughing at how she sounds, due to "Ismail's dire influence"; wondering if "The Maestro" (Satyajit Ray) had similar problems with distributors and exhibitors when he was starting out; assuring Ivory that "your time will come too, when you will stride colossus-like over the pygmies (i.e. the distributors, exhibitors, financiers, journalists, culture-vultures) of this world"; asking for Ivory's news; recommending Diarmuid Russell to him; describing an "Aquatic Follies" she attended, and a "hen-lunch" she did not; describing her "very secluded and very spartan" days writing, reading, listening to records, etc.; "[t]he sachertorte was 4 days of pure bliss"; describing a book she recently read, Lillian Ross's "Picture."