Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, Mumbai, India, [1965 January 14 or 21] : autograph manuscript signed.

Transcibing some new lines for the character Aslam in "Shakespeare Wallah"; expressing worry about the end of the film; asking if they still have the scene she wrote for Lizzie and her father; expressing anxiety about several sections of the film; asking Merchant to go to Bombelli's, where she bought some chocolates during her recent visit, and get a replacement for some truffles that turned out to be "absolutely green with mould," which he and Ivory can then eat; repeating some "crazy stories" she has heard about Vivien Leigh's time in Delhi, making Hamish Hamilton and his wife, and Minoo Masani and his wife, miserable; describing the "U.K. High Commission people" in Delhi and their reaction to the new Labour Party-affiliated commissioner's replacing "Sir Paul," a Tory like most of them; describing some festival films she's seen-- "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "Wedding Swedish Style"-- and the reactions of people they know to films like "Winter Light" and "Tom Jones"; saying the consensus seems to be that "moral values in the West are very low" and no one is taking their wives to see the films now; noting that the only Indian film personality to take an interest is Satyajit Ray.