Letter from Ismail Merchant, Mumbai, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1964 January 29 : typescript signed.

Saying he has already written one letter to Ivory today, but "It seems that I am never satisfied. I want to write to you constantly and not do anything else"; expressing the conviction that they cannot be separated for this long and this far ever again, and hoping that Ivory can give him a date for his return, to give him something to look forward to and console him when he is sad; moving on to practical matters like income tax; repeating some of the list of items he wants Ivory to bring when he returns and adding a few, like socks and a screenplay for Ruth; deciding that it would be best for Ivory to come to Bombay rather than Delhi, as he has postponed his plans to make a documentary in Delhi; repeating the "good news" of financing for "Shakespeare Wallah" coming from Shashi and the Maharaja of Bhavnagar, and of the new Maharaja-financed movie theater in Bombay called the Apsara, where the latest Raj Kapoor movie "Sangam" is opening; signing off, "Now just come."