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

Sharing that Ismail Merchant has succeeded in getting permission from the Reserve Bank to ship the "Mystical Body", likely referring to the film's negative; revealing that Ismail Merchant will be going to New York "before the film is finished, before he has even seen it, leaving me behind to complete the work" in order to discuss festival submissions with Richard Roud; wondering how the goal of getting the film into a festival is to be realized, given how busy everyone is and how much work is left to do; expressing doubts about Shashi Kapoor's ability to get a print to Merchant in New York quickly enough ("Shashi will charm everybody and thrill everybody, but he will not knock their heads together in the brisk Ismailian style which gets things done fast."); planning a trip to Delhi to coincide with the film's grading, though adding "without Ismail, how can we sacrifice a candle in a temple? Which we must"; specifying where he would like to sacrifice a candle ("on the grave of that Jewish hippie saintly poet outside Jama Masjid"); telling her that he has taken out the chapter titles and the kiss between Hari and Lucia on the porch of the ashram.