Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Claverack, New York, to Ismail Merchant, , India, 1987 October 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying she and Ivory have been "following your adventures in India-- breathlessly" and that Renana tells her that the Indian newspapers are "full of stories about you"; giving him her detailed thoughts on the screenplays for "In Custody" and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"; saying she saw Joanne Woodward in "The Glass Mangerie" and thought she was "wonderful, absolutely wonderful"; noting that "[t]oday is Halloween and Jim has gone out to buy a pumpkin to carve"; describing the state of the Claverack property following a large storm that recently hit and damaged many trees; telling him she is planning to cook the ginger chicken recipe from Merchant's cookbook tonight; telling him to send a copy of the cookbook to Osyth Leeston when he's in London, as she's been "hinting in a hurt way how she hasn't got it"; asking him to come back soon-- "it's so empty without you, here and in N.Y."