Letter from James Ivory, London, England, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1971 June 25: autograph manuscript signed.

Reporting on his meeting with "Mrs. Leeston, John Murray, and the proposed book jacket" [for "An Experience of India"; see MA 23840.951]; describing the artwork, supposedly inspired by Ivory's photograph of Jhabvala; which instead of showing the figure dwarfed and overwhelmed, instead "would have done for a travel poster ... So I said no, none of this would do"; telling her that the publishers have agreed to redo the artwork and that he will "try and find some photos at the V&A of other palace interiors so the artist can complete the room at the top with mouldings [sic], or brackets, or whatnot"; observing that Murray and Mrs. Leeston were "incredibly polite" and had liked "Bombay Talkie"; reporting that he told Mrs. Leeston the title of Jhabvala's new novel-- "A New Dominion"-- and that she liked it; telling her he showed the Chaudhuri film [i.e. "Adventures of a Brown man In Search of Civilization"] to David Gladwell and that Gladwell is going to help him cut it down by ten minutes to "make the B.B.C. happy."