Letter from James Ivory, Mumbai, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 July 13 : typescript signed with autograph annotations and corrections.

Confirming that he has now received all of her letters; telling her that he will try the chapter titles he'd previously discussed; asking for her input on what the titles of the chapters could be; defending his decision to include a shot of Lucia driving up to Hari's home, but allowing that it might be a good idea to drop the scene with Hari and Lucia on the porch of the ashram; telling her that Ismail Merchant has gone to Hyderabad and is writing a film script with Mohan Rakesh; describing Merchant's new friend, "the Nizam's brother", who went to Oxford and "talks with intelligence of Ajanta and Ellora"; reflecting on Merchant's perception of himself as an artist; updating her about efforts to get the negative of the film out of the country ("the wretched Reserve Bank has started it's processing of our request to take out the negative [...] at first they said we would have to send our New York print to the Indian Consulate there"); complaining about the Reserve Bank's lack of understanding about how film is printed and made ("They have the idea at the Reserve Bank that prints can be made in India and exported to America. They are such fools, it makes me so angry."); telling her that "the editing table has broken down"; reflecting on Jhabvala's daughter Renana's new adulthood.