Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 February 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

Alerting him to the enclosed new scene (not included with this item) and providing additional commentary about how she imagines the scene will be shot; referencing a previous letter about the need to shoot scenes with Gopal Ma with care; expressing her concerns about Sudarshan Dhir's performance as a choreographer given the importance of the dance scene ("[He] will be fine as the choreographer in the film, fine as an actor, but will he be able to come up with a splendid enough dance number?"); asking whether he has better assistants than he did; recounting what she was told by Ismail Merchant at Shashi Kapoor's home about his assistants; asking if an assistant that Merchant asked Kapoor to contact had showed up on set yet; asking whether he will have time to buy Jennifer Kendal a birthday present from her; asking him to "turn to p. 30 of your script" and cross out the word "nice-looking" and then to adjust the dialogue again on page 31 and in scene 2.