Letter from James Ivory, London, England, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1968 August 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Announcing that "the inevitable depression has fallen upon me which always occurs when I leave India with a film and find myself next in London"; describing the problems they have had shipping the film, which is currently stuck in customs in Bombay-- "Prabhu is attempting to get it on to a plane"-- and Merchant's "secretly cursing his haste in leaving India"; telling her that when "re-recording has been done" [a.k.a. sound mixing] they will have to bring the film to California to show to Richard Zanuck at Fox, which he is not looking forward to; describing the suite they are currently in at Carlton Tower, though Fox wants them to move to an apartment for budgetary reasons; describing a prospective rental he looked at: "I didn't like it very much-- fake Picassos on the wall, lots of that Scandinavian stuff all around that looks like it will fall down if you use it"; picking up two days later, saying he doesn't know how much longer they will be at Carlton Tower, so she should hold off sending anything until they have their new address; observing in a postscript, "That boring Hubert Humphrey is making his boring acceptance speech on T.V. Poor Democrats, poor America."