Letter from James Ivory, Mumbai, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 May 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

Telling her that a scene "has turned out quite nicely. I think it's enough to establish [Lucia] in an ashram"; suggesting alternative locations for another scene she'd written; suggesting alternative scenes for establishing Lucia's interest in an ashram; wondering if they need another scene with Vikram chasing Lucia "make the film more dramatic"; hoping that they can get the rights to "the song set in Venice"; describing "a number of young Europeans'' that he has met lately, who are "out and out hippies" and tend to take drugs frequently; characterizing the conversations they have while they are high and the conversational barriers that exist between the Europeans and their Indian counterparts; asking whether she met "that friend of Zia [Mohyeddin's], that Scandinavian lady he stayed with" who is the wife of a West German official stationed in Delhi; providing Ismail Merchant's address in New York, which is their production company's new office; describing the neighborhood around the office, which is at 655 Madison Avenue.