Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, London, England, 1970 September 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Telling them about "two more screenings in Bombay" that Jennifer Kendal has described to her, which included one for the head of the Censors Board; saying that Kendal received a lot of praise for the film, but that she herself is less interested in the praise that came from "Shammi and Daboo Kapoor, who are hardly fans of ours", because "I don't know that I want people like Shammi and Daboo to be all that enthusiastic about our films"; telling them that if the film is going to be "by our standards, a popular success in India, then we must be careful not to throw this unexpected advantage away"; suggesting that Shashi Kapoor may not be as equipped to be the film's distributor as Merchant; describing a misunderstanding that happened between her, Jennifer Kendal, Shashi Kapoor and the editor of the Illustrated Weekly; addressing Merchant directly to ask him about progress toward the film's American release; beginning to recall a story she read in the Observer about Muriel Spark and her collecting habits, which she promises to describe more fully in a future letter.