Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, [1965] July 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying she spent all day yesterday looking for a telegram from them, but none came, then was shocked the next morning to see in the paper that Madhur had won the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival; musing on all the possible reasons and rationales for the award, aside from Madhur's excellent performance, and the response to it in India; feeling it will make things easier for "Shakespeare Wallah" in India; asking about the Godard film that won best picture ["Alphaville"], and expressing pleasure over Satyajit Ray's win for best director with "Charulata"; saying someone just called them on the phone asking for a photo of Madhur, which she doesn't have; asking if the New York and London Film Festivals are very prestigious; passing on Jhab's concern about actually selling the film; passing on some details of the press coverage of the festival in Screen magazine, the Sunday Statesman, and the daily papers, including a photograph captioned as Shashi and Foo (Felicity Kendal), but which Ava realized was actually Merchant and Foo; mentioning a piece that their friend Cyril is trying to write on "Shakespeare Wallah," but can't seem to make work, not least because he hasn't seen the film; telling Ivory how happy she is that he liked her novel "A Backward Place."