Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 January 30: autograph manuscript signed.

Disagreeing that the scene in a recording studio must go back where it originally was in the script as she feels it will disrupt the flow of the story; suggesting that the scene in the recording studio could have dialogue intended for another scene between Vikram and Hari in Hari's bedroom, which she refers to as "the most overwrought scene of all"; suggesting a change to the scene that follows to make the change work; providing a list of scenes in the new revised order; suggesting additional changes to scenes being shot in March, including scene 1; requesting that Ivory not have Pinchoo Kapoor shave his head for the part so he looks more attractive; admitting that changing things at this point in the production is difficult but hoping that "this time the situation is not so desperate"; updating him that there has been no news of note; confronting him about "one horrible remark" she's heard he made to Ismail Merchant about her interest in gossip ("Is that really what you think? [...] it makes me want to be silent for ever and not take any interest in anything."); expressing continued ambivalence about "the pān-wala scene".