Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1964 March 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Say she received two "very cheerful and encouraging letters" from Ivory that morning, taking hope that "The Householder" "is not doomed to stay forever in cans," and that the actors film ["Shakespeare Wallah"] will be made; confiding that she does not want to make "The Widow" and can tell Ivory doesn't either; describing Merchant's "persuading campaign" to try to bring her about to his way of thinking on that film; suspecting that a similar campaign has been waged with Shashi and Jennifer, who Merchant says are in favor of "The Widow" when "they certainly weren't" two weeks ago when she saw them; wondering if Merchant's position is because he didn't like the draft of her script for "Shakespeare Wallah"; mentioning that Merchant may be in Delhi next week with someone from the MPEA; encouraging Ivory not to be "tactful" in his notes on the script, but to feel "free to be as blunt as you like"; asking if he got her earlier request to send some money to her nephew on her behalf for his bar-mitzvah; referring to "all the new companies we're all forming"; asking Ivory to "come back quickly now."