Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, [1966] March 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking them for their recent telegram; saying she has seen some of the American reviews of "Shakespeare Wallah" and hopes it will "make lots of money for all of us"; playfully chiding Merchant for his engagement with the Indian Ambassador to the U.N.'s demanding wife; describing the imminent visits of two people she has presumably invited as research for the Ustad script [later "The Guru"]-- a revered musician, and a "young American who has gone native & learns the flute & lives only for Indian music"; expressing pleasant surprise at having seen James Fox in a movie she and Jhab took the children to see, "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"; admitting she feels "much, much keener" on doing the Ustad film than "Esmond"; repeating her conviction that they should avoid amateur actors in the future; insisting that her most recent illness is "nothing physical," which is why she refuses to go to the doctor; asking them to write soon, and sending love to Foo and Madhur.