Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 September 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Clarifying that she "did not say that Anjana Devi's house is a kind of brothel," but that there should be someone playing the harmonium in the next room and that the scene as it currently stands is oddly quiet; raising concerns about the soundtrack in other scenes that she has already identified to him; reflecting on the factors that have undermined the quality of the film's soundtrack; analyzing her surprisingly muted response to "the Lucia-Hari car-scene"; wondering why "this film, more than any of the others, strikes me as a noble film? That it says something noble about the human condition?"; recounting Sasha Bruce's latest visit; saying that "I like her more each time I see her"; providing the address Bruce will be staying at in London for the next few weeks and expressing how much Bruce is "eagerly looking forward" to meeting Ivory; describing Bruce's friend, Harriet, "the one that wrote the book about student movements in Europe"; comparing the way the two women communicated with each other (specifically, that they had clearly decided to "be very careful with each other and respect each other's feelings and be invariably polite and thoughtful with each other") to the way that Ismail and Ivory communicate; reflecting on how her written communication with Merchant has become less frequent and wondering if Merchant has noticed the change; scolding her dogs to "stop scratching!"