Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Dinuba, California, 1967 August 16: autograph manuscript signed.

Describing her thoughts since receiving Ivory's telegram as "if not tranquil, at least very pleasant indeed, full of smiles and indeed rather smug at everything so suddenly appearing to turn out so well"; adding "of course I am worried" about working on the "Guru" script, and considering the best schedule, before or after Ivory visits and they have "discussed everything and gone travelling"; concerned that they not "stuff too much in and make it too long and unwieldly," as she feels they did with the "Shakespeare Wallah" sequel; hoping that Merchant is "not going to forget" about the sequel "when he charges around London" trying to obtain funding; also hoping that "Vertical and Horizontal" can be produced at some point in the future; reminding Ivory, "if you go to London, you mustn't miss the opportunity of getting to see a village fête" as research for the sequel; telling him that Jhab has a business trip to Hyderabad soon and she will be accompanying him "just to have a look around"; repeating her conviction that Banaras [Varanasi] would be wrong for the Ustad's home; asking if he got her previous long letter about the script; concluding "Your imagination tends to be a little unbridled and Tennessee Williams-ish sometimes, and I feel like a bloody nanny chasing and shoo-ing after it and trying to keep it in check. But between this unbridled imagination of yours & my rather prim, tidy attributes, we must try & work out a marvellous script-- we must!"