Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1969 March 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Expressing anger at "bloody mean old Al grandiosely loaning [underlined] Ismail a measly $1000"; suggesting they go after Filmways for the $10,000 they are owed for the abortive "Lovely World" deal; agreeing to make some changes to the "A Lovely World" script, but doubting it will make the project any more commercially desireable; asking why reviews for "The Guru" are coming out before the film has opened; lamenting the fact that Penelope Gilliatt is replacing Pauline Kael at the New Yorker, as she feels Gilliatt is a writer first and a film reviewer second; musing that she may have to take some work writing television scripts, as her prose work is limited and earns little money, and she wants to earn a "decent living"; expressing annoyance at "all those useless Fox people drawing salaries, month after month their whole life long, for doing nothing useful whatsoever"; asserting that "I should be paid for what I want to do & can do well-- & you the same. Neither of us should ever be asked to do a Tiger Man or anything else unworthy"; saying she likes all the projects Ivory has proposed -- "not a 'Nerve' [see MA 23840.245] among them"-- and they must "hustle" to get what they want and deserve.