Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, [1966] June 21 : typescript signed.

Reacting with excitement to the news that Ruth and the family will be visiting London soon; laying out a few possibilities for their meeting up in London or New York; commenting on the extraordinary statistics on California's population growth; mentioning his friend Awtar Kaul, who lives in New York and has been robbed multiple times; describing his idea for a sequel to "Shakespeare Wallah," which would follow Lizzie's adventures in England, following the pattern of Felicity Kendal's own experiences; trying to encourage Ruth to collaborate on this idea along with Ivory's friend, director Waris Hussein; musing on where his attention is, projects like "Vertical and Horizontal" and the Ustad film ["The Guru"] as compared to where he is physically, and how the two affect his work; a quick interjection from Merchant, who is looking forward to seeing them and describing Ivory's knee injury and the subsequent behavior; Ivory back, commenting on his knee injury; discussing working on Vertical and Horizontal; asking what Ruth and Jhab thought of Wallace Shawn, who was in India teaching recently, and is now blasting India film music at home in New York; observing that he hasn't seen Ved Mehta yet.