Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, 1966 October 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking what they think of the recent marriage of Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu; telling them the story behind the recent criminal complaint against R.D. Bansal; voicing concern that this will distract Bansal from "Shakespeare Wallah"; saying "Jennifer writes to say that SW is compulsory viewing for all Peace Corps workers before they come out here" and is happy that Merchant and Ivory put the Kendals in touch with "a U.S. agent" concerning a possible tour for their company there; saying she hasn't heard from them but assumes they are hard at work on "Vertical and Horizontal"; vowing to write the "Shakespeare Wallah" sequel and assuring them she will not wait to be paid to start; decribing in detail the one time she has gone out since getting home, a dinner party thrown by Catherine Freeman, and how Catherine "always sees to it that I have the nicest people there next to me," in this case the poet Stephen Spender; saying "Jhab has already given me notice that I can't go away again, he says it disrupts his life too much & he has to have his household running properly."