Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, [1965] August 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

Hoping Ivory is working on the film and Merchant is "resting his afflicted ear"; describing the most recent piece in the Statesman by Amita Malik deploring the lack of support from the Indian government to Indian "delegations" at international film festivals; complaining that she has "had to make a precipitate flight upstairs because that wretched Dr. Fabri and his wretched son Christopher have just arrived and I'm simply in no mood to see them. So I've locked myself in the bedroom ... Just as I was looking forward to a peaceful Sunday"; saying she has been suffering from dizzy spells lately; passing on the detailed contents of a letter from Jennifer Kendal, giving a progress report on Foo in England, and saying Geoffrey Kendal saw "Shakespeare Wallah"-- "how? where?"-- and hated it, and is furious with all of them ("apparently he wrote a long letter, raging against everything in the film"), which she doesn't understand; continuing, "That wretched man & his miserable boy are still sitting downstairs, can you believe it. Playing scrabble with the children, while I'm trapped up here"; passing on an unflattering anecdote about Fabri from John Freeman; continuing "it's now started pouring with rain, so I suppose they're going to make themselves comfortable here downstairs for the rest of the day. If only Jhab were home, he'd know what to do..."; transcribing a few lines from Amita Malik's article in the margin.