Letter from Bruce Chatwin, Wotton-under-Edge, England, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1969 December 8 : typescript signed.

Discussing his work on his book, and a flirtation with the theater world with regards to a "senario" for a musical he wrote on a lark some years ago, spending the coming evening with Galt McDermott and lunch with Noel Coward on Friday; lamenting the fact that he is being "railroaded" into traveling to New York for an Asia Society ("Asia House") exhibition; hoping to travel then to Morocco and Mauretania; describing an auction of Indian miniatures he attended, and a "Jehangir period picture of an Arctic Tern" he bought; describing a "really long and slow trip right across Asia" that he would love to take and write about; asking if Ivory has read "The Asiatics" by "Frederick" Prokosch; musing on the "possibilities" of an "archaeological fraud film," and describing one he was "very closely involved in"; telling Ivory he will be in "in the country" at Holwell Farm until January 8, and asking him to write.