Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1967 May 30: autograph manuscript signed.

Describing how, after hearing about a photograph of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, she had "a vision" about the "Guru" script-- "why shouldn't Jeremy be a pop musician come to absorb Indian music?"; admitting that this change would necessitate a complete re-writing of the script, but voicing enthusiasm for this new direction, as it is more relevant to the present and possibly even more marketable; pointing out "those hitch-hiking hep types of which the streets of Delhi (& Agra & Banaras & simply everywhere, the villages & the holy places) are so full"; mocking herself ("What a weather-cock I am! You must be quite disgusted with me"), but asserting seriously "I'm so full of, so bursting with things I want to say, to show-- that have never been said & shown before"; answering Ivory's inquiry about adapting some Kipling stories with the assertion that that India and its relationship to England is "all rather old hat now. Surely one should be doing things about Indians & Europeans & Americans now, as they are today, what they're doing today, not all that dead stuff. Don't you think?"; asking "Doesn't Jim Ivory have planty to say on his own, about his own world, his own vision? But there I'm bullying you again"; admitting she would very much like to finish the script for the sequel to "Shakespeare Wallah" but won't until there is development money; asking why they didn't work on it when they were together in London and New York.