Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1967 July 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

Venting her disgust and frustration at the near-universal negative reaction to "Shakespeare Wallah" in the Indian press; voicing concern as to how Subrata Mitra is going to take being "classed with us now, as India-haters and India-defilers"; mentioning that her friend Kushwant Singh wrote something positive on the film in an editorial; admitting that, while she feels she should be working on "A Lovely World" [the "Shakespeare Wallah" sequel], she feels herself drawn to work instead on "The Guru"; passing on an anecdote about Foo's [Felicity Kendal's] experience at the National Theatre from Jennifer, who is in London visiting her sister; observing the relative expense of shoes in the West, compared to India, and the small sums in their royalty statements-- "What's the matter with us? Why don't people pay us for our high art and expertise?"; citing a recent short story of hers which she considered very good, but which was difficult to sell, even for her agent Darmuid Russell; thinking the West has developed an "India block," but then again, the New Yorker featured "a dreadful dreadful Indian story ... a real toad story" by Padma Perera; telling him they now have "two new Alsatian puppies" named Nixi and Mopa.