Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, 1963 August 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

Expressing relief that her daughter Renana is recovering from an operation, and describing the illness, surgery, and complications that led to it; saying "Jhab would like to be active in your blocked rupees affair" and describing possible courses of action with Columbia India; providing a correction to the French translation of "The Householder"; relating the outline of a screenplay idea she had while "sitting by Renana's hospital bed"; mentioning that she recently met interior designers Betty Pepis and Evelyn Jablow and that they will contact Ivory upon their return to New York; putting Ivory in touch with her brother Siegbert Prawer, who is currently in New York, and her aunt in Brooklyn; acknowledging the "wonderful news about the Flaherty Film Festival," and saying "to hell with [the] Venice [Film Festival]."