Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1966 April 15 : typescript signed.

Explaining why he and Merchant cannot "forget about 'Shakespeare Wallah'" as Ruth suggests they do-- "we are, after all, the distributors"; explaining how their accounts are handled, and all the expenses and debts they have incurred during production; apologizing for the disarray of their accounts, about which Jhab and Shashi have expressed displeasure; standing up somewhat for Merchant and how hard he has been working on the film; promising they will pay all their bills and be more precise and transparent in the future; breaking the news of Lillian Ross's recent adoption of her son Erik; asking them to buy a couple of baby-sized kurtas for Erik; teasing more discussion of "the Ustad film" ["The Guru"] and news of "the T of T's [Indira Gandhi] in New York" in his next letter.