Letter from James Ivory, Mumbai, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 January 5 : typescript signed.

Celebrating the good relationship that Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal have with Zia Mohyeddin; describing a well-received suggested change he'd like to make to the first scene to add a giant typewriter with people dancing on the keys, spelling out the lyrics of the scene's soundtrack; suggesting that they should allow people to tour the studio and see the typewriter after it's built to defray the cost of building it; narrating how the scene with the typewriter should go, with an actor playing the dance director giving directions to Kapoor and describing the idea behind the scene for the actors and for the audience; recounting a conversation he had with Satyajit Ray about The Guru, which included specific compliments and criticism; reflecting on the effect The Guru has had on Ray's opinion of them and on their reputations; describing a dining room table that they've found for the set of Vikram's house, the set itself, and the importance of set dressing choices at certain points in the film.