Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1963 October 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Anxiously anticipating October 21, the date of the U.S. release of "The Householder," and asking Ivory to "sit down as soon as you feel collected enough, after the fearful event, and write me every single little detail about it"; also asking him to send press clippings about the film, especially the New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece by Ved Mehta, even though she doesn't think much of his interview technique; asking if they are going to invite the Galbraiths, who are "probably at Harvard," to the premiere; relating an encounter that the Nuruddins had with Bowles; telling Ivory that the introduction he wrote for the published version of "The Householder" script will not be included after all, and Saran Singh is keeping a close eye on the Delhi printers as they work on it ("all Delhi printers are hopeless"); saying she has had a letter from her friend Christine Weston, asking for Ivory's credentials after he apparently contacted Weston about adapting her novel "Indigo," and says "you oughtn't to have contacted her" as writers are sensitive and "that sort of thing creates a lot of bad feeling," as with Mitra and Pearl Buck (and "The Guide"); asking Ivory to bring "a couple of pretty winter suits" from the U.S. for her husband Jhab.