Letter from James Ivory, Mumbai, India, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 August 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking her for all the cuttings; relating how he met Kabir Bedi with Ismail the night Dorothy Strelsin arrived in Bombay; describing how Bedi came to occupy "a strange position" in the life of Fred Ohringer; explaining that Ohringer was having an open affair with Asha Putle [i.e. Puthli], which his wife Elie had to put up with, so she later took Bedi as her lover; explaining that neither Elie nor Bedi was happy with the situation, and Fred and Elie separated after returning to New York; describing an advertisement for a theater production of Tughlaq that he was going to send Ruth; saying it was "a veritable roster of one's enemies", including Pearl Padamsee and Gerson da Cunha; saying he hasn't been reading many Indian newspapers because he has been busy in the editing room; asking whether she has seen an article about him and other Indian directors in Star & Style; saying he has booked a theater to screen Bombay Talkie; saying he won't be able to visit her in Delhi.