Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 February 2 : autograph manuscript signed.

Updating him about her mother's fight with a supervisor at Fortnum and Mason to have an unsatisfactory box of chocolates that Jhabvala gave her as a gift refunded or replaced, "which, unfortunately, the supervisor appears to be winning"; reflecting on her own anxiety, which she suspects is a familial trait; describing how this manifests for her brother; comparing the attitudes espoused by the wealthy Jewish families featured in the book "Our Crowd" to those of Jewish families in England and reflecting on what she sees as her perennial position in "the wrong camp"; asking whether he agreed with Jock Murray's assessment of his son, Hallam, as "not a worldly, self-confident person", which she disagrees with; telling him that there will be a festival of Satyajit Ray's work ("a super-super Maestro festival") arranged by the Delhi-area Max Mueller Bhavan.