Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, Mumbai, India, 1965 April 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Hoping they can find the funds to pay for a print of the finished film ("Shakespeare Wallah"); referencing "this Lucknow business" and advising against trying to make an air connection to Lucknow with only a thirty-minute margin; resolving herself "Well, it's one of those MIP muddles which I find always so upsetting but which somehow or other seem always to resolve themselves quite happily"; saying that a check from one of "Ismail's millionaire friends" has bounced; expressing her amazement that she was invited to be part of the committee for "the film awards" [presumably the National Film Awards], then going on to lay out in detail why she won't accept; hoping "The Householder" gets something, especially as the prize money would come in handy; thanking Merchant for sending a clipping [not present], and reminiscing about an incident in Bombay about which she says, "I'm sure that if, by some misfortune, you hadn't been there that day with us, Jim and I would have ended up in Vile Parle police station"; giving an update on "dear John Freeman," the new British High Commissioner in Delhi, who she and Catherine Galbraith used to call "Mr. Knightly"; describing the annual Queen's Birthday reception at the High Commissioner's house, and the motley crew of expats it attracts.