Letter from James Ivory, Wainscott, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1971 August 14 : typescript signed.

Beginning "Back at last. And I won't tell you how anxious I was to get here"; telling her they are now at a rented house on Long Island "where I hope to bring you, if you come while we still have it"; describing all the traveling he has been doing in recent months; saying "I feel quite healthy and energetic and filled with well-being," which he attributes to having completed a fair amount of work on both "Savages" and the documentary, and having the rest waiting for him; embarking on a long discussion of how their films-- "Bombay Talkie," "The Guru," and "Shakespeare Wallah"-- are being received or experiencing periods of "rehabilitation"; describing "my friend Bruce Chatwin" and his wife, who he met in the south of France; relating a bizarre story he heard from Henry Herbert and Chatwin about Penelope Betjeman and her friend fending off a rapist in Turkey; describing the landscape of the south of France and how much it reminds him of where he grew up in Oregon and Calfornia; coming to the end of the aerogramme with, "Will tell you about Morocco in another letter."