Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kasauli, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, West Berlin, West Germany, [1965] June 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing the view from their room at the Alasia Hotel in Kasauli; saying that it's comparatively hot there, but not as bad as in Delhi, where there have been deaths from heat stroke; describing an attempted trip the day before to Solan, "where Kushwant Singh had an appointment with Master Tara Singh, for whose Akali Dal [political party] he is drawing up a manifesto," when their car "sprung a leak in the petrol tank," and "we had to push the damn car half a mile down the road and walk all the untold miles back to Kasauli"; noting that when they arrived back at the hotel in the evening, all the regulars like Jim Tytler had gathered on the veranda to reminisce about the old days as they do every night-- "they are 'Shakespeare-wallah' in themselves"; making an oblique reference to Tytler posibly not having been paid; saying how much she likes it in Kasauli, and listing their mutual friends who are there or coming soon-- Kushwant Singh, John and Catherine Galbraith, Cyril Dunn, Mehra Masani; describing an annoying recent column by Amita Malik "on Sending Films Abroad"; saying Jhab's brother and his family will be visiting from Geneva for a month and she plans to "barricade myself up in the bedroom all day"; ending by noting that "Today is our wedding anniversary, we've been married 14 years. It doesn't seem that long."