Letter from James Ivory, Mumbai, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 August 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Expressing concern that the film [i.e. Bombay Talkie] might not be in the New York Film Festival; explaining the importance of the free publicity the festival would bring; describing the difficulty of getting an independent film distributed; stating the cost and meagre result of publicity for Shakespeare Wallah; describing what David [Gladwell], the editor of the film, is currently doing; expressing his strange feeling about the film being nearly finished; expressing his feeling that "'right-thinking' people" will like the film.