Letter from James Ivory, Mumbai, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 January 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

Notifying her that Edna O'Brien will be coming to India and staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel next month; wishing O'Brien were arriving two weeks later to coincide with a better point in the filming schedule; explaining that he wants to keep the recording studio scene in to show more color of the Indian film industry at work, "which Western audiences will enjoy, will find new and interesting and amusing"; telling her that the recording studio they had rented to shoot in won't refund them anyway, and even if they shoot there the studio won't apply the full amount they've already paid to new dates.