Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 July 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

Enumerating the letters that she has sent that have not been acknowledged, and stating her irritation that she believes he has received them and has been "careless"; asking to see "that film before you take it away" and reminding him what happened with "The Guru"; asserting that if it comes to choosing whether they should show it to her or get it to the Venice Film Festival on time, "I take precedence. You tell Ismail."; discussing Penelope Gilliatt's film reviews in the New Yorker and what that might mean for the reviews of their film; critiquing Gilliatt's short stories as "meretricious" ("it's the literary equivalent of party chatter which sound good, is amusing for a moment (if you're hearing it for the first time) and doesn't mean a thing, being merely a reflection of what's thought by unoriginal minds to be modern and valid"); describing her favorite parts of his stories about "your Bombay social life"; telling him that "Auntie Gauba(?)" and "Didi" are being sent by the government of India on a lecture tour of Europe.