Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1967 January 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing her impressions of a treatment written by Ivory which she recently received [possibly for "The Guru" or "Bombay Talkie"]; making wry observations about possibly casting the Kendals--"he might make a good office boss, and she an evil British lady"--or Jennifer, and possibly dropping Lynn Redgrave if the budget is low; saying she wasn't "bowled over" by Roshan Seth as a casting possibility, but her daughters Ava and Ranana were impressed; relating the "Nana-Polly development"-- a quiet chaste romance of Renana's, which she is tolerant of, but Jhab "hates"; providing "[a] bit more about the Swami and the American girl" [see MA 23840.384]; expressing happiness that "there's an office again" [presumably a Merchant Ivory office]; describing her (negative) feelings about film premieres and promotion; commenting on a clipping Ivory sent about Ginger Rogers in London and musing on outmoded glamor; suspecting that Merchant's drive for multiple premieres [for "Shakespeare Wallah"] is partly due to a lack of other projects; discussing "the person you refer to as the Blond Bitch," who she knew at London University; commenting on "that horrid Rex Reed's bitchy article about Simone Signoret" and how it provides useful material and refers to "that same old Russian baroness whose hairpiece you kicked under the table at Eden Fleming's"; in a long postscript, discussing some thought on a scene in one of their developing scripts [possibly "The Guru"] involving a radio show.