Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, [1965] September 7 : typescript signed.

Lamenting the "terrible" news of war between India and Pakistan, and how "nobody here seems to know what's going on"; saying when he got news of the war while on his way to New York for the festival, Satyajit Ray turned around and headed back to Calcutta; asking Ruth and Jhab to write all the news they can; telling them the New York Film Festival starts tonight, and Godard, Carl Dreyer, and Visconti are all there; describing what he plans to say when introducing the film, and introducing Madhur; describing Ismail's appearance on a television show called "The Young Set," and how he discovered that Greta Garbo lives in the same apartment complex as they do, but not their building; saying the critical reception for "Shakespeare Wallah" has been good, and a major American agent wants to represent Shashi; also describing Madhur's triumphant arrival in New York, every inch a movie star, despite her "terrible time with Saeed" in London; announcing "Tonight I am putting on my tuxedo, Ismail his best black shervani, and Madhur all her bits of hair and her most ravishing sari and we will proceed to the grand opening at the Philharmonic"; asking why they haven't written, observing "When you don't write for a long time something is always the matter."