Letter from James Ivory, Bridgehampton, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1973 July 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing his "very idle weekend" in Bridgehampton, on Long Island, with Dick and Philippa Weismann-- attending a lecture on Trotsky, gawking at the mansions in Southampton, seeing the garage of the former Consuelo Vanderbilt; reflecting on how the area seems more appropriate to "The Great Gatsby" than "the Newport places they used [for the movie]"; noting that "Shashi's film ["Siddhartha"] has had the most terrible luck in opening the same week as a Maestro [Satyajit Ray] picture" and has gotten bad reviews; telling her that Merchant "is due back tomorrow" and anticipating that he will say Ivory has "done nothing" in his absence; observing that it has been 13 months since they finished "Savages," which is their second longest gap between pictures, after the one post-"Shakespeare Wallah."