Letter from Ismail Merchant, London, England, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Cyrus Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1974 February 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

Telling them he has arrived in London; observing that the city seems "quite slow and mournful" and "[p]eople's spirits are generally subdued"; describing how he got in touch with Ava, after many misses, and how he will see her in London soon; confirming that "Autobiography" will start shooting on March 4 with James Mason; saying he's enxious to get the film done and move on to other things; saying "we keep hearing all kinds of bad news about India [here]" and asking them to write an fill him in on things; promising to write them as well, and telling them "Jim will come to London on Saturday."