Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Mumbai, India, 1970 August 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

Lamenting the fact that the operator cut them off in the middle of their conversation that morning; noting that when she was speaking to Ismail, the operator actualy offered him more time, and assuming it was because he was speaking in such a heated way; discussing Ivory's clothes, presumably for the press junket for "Bombay Talkie'; admonishing him that "your key-note must be: delicacy, refinement, infinite nuances of ineffable taste and elegance: a gem of exquisite radiation is what you must be"; enumerating the items she is enclosing [including a few that are no longer present]; commenting on Kabir Bedi and the Hare Krishna followers; suggesting that "we might have our screening [of "Bombay Talkie"] on Saturday early in the afternoon"; adding "and perhaps we could see it a second time on Sunday morning?"; hoping Ivory will come back to Delhi with them, and promising to "have your bed made to await you and also give the dogs a bath in your honour"; telling him about Renana's experiments with a new cookbook, "The Art of Viennese Cooking," and the German names of the dishes; relating that "David [Gladwell] says that of all the titles [in the opening title sequence of "Bombay Talkie"] his and Subrata's is the best, because the sea comes up and over their poster"; noting in a postscript that "Tomorrow is Raksha Bandhan. Two years ago on this day we were in Bombay, in the Guru editing room, talking about Bombay Talkie."