Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 July 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

Sympathizing with his current struggles, including "dirt on the sound-track"; asking what has "gone very much wrong this time" to have upset Ismail Merchant; expressing her belief that Merchant is not an artist but "something rarer than that--a man of action, a hero"; criticizing those who "exalt 'creative people' above all others, and of course that's just what people do in Bombay"; asking when David (Gladwell?) is coming and whether he would to see Agra; telling him that Diarmuid Russell "has sold a story of mine to Cosmopolitan. What sort of magazine is that?"; describing the story that Cosmopolitan has bought and the rate that the magazine is paying ("nowhere near the N[ew] Yorker--but not bad ($1250)"); telling him that they will come to see the film "when you tell us to"; adding that Ismail says that a publisher is "willing to bring out the screenplay"; questioning whether there really is a screenplay, given how many changes have been made since the beginning.