Letter from Cyrus Jhabvala, Bangkok, Thailand, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1971 November 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking Ivory for wiring him the money, and telling him he is sending back $600 he didn't use; confessing he has "lost the taste for buying things, even though Hong Kong was positively glutted with the leavings of the West"; describing the "throngs" of shoppers, "[everybody] on the roads had plastic bags permanently fused to their curled fingers & their arms have stretched to their ankles, ape-arm fashion, as a kind of occupational disease"; playfully announcing "I have now tasted blood & find that, with a little bit of effort, I can now whirl round the conference world-- Sydney, Israel, Toronto (where I'm invited to meet a looney architect)" and "nothing can stop further conferences and conventions & I'll whirl & mingle & whirl & mingle till I'm launched into orbit, where all good conference attendees finally land up."