Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1974 February 14 : typescript signed.

Wishing her a happy Valentine's Day, and describing in detail the previous night's "huge cook-up in honor of Christopher Isherwood," attended by Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Ved, Madhur, Sanford, George Trow and Justine Cushing, Paulita Sedgwick, and Wally and Debbie; relating Merchant's telephone call this morning with Isherwood, where the latter revealed that he's to be photographed with Liza Minelli and is desperate to get his teeth capped before the shoot; observing that Isherwood in some ways reminds him of Nirad Chaudhuri; noting that the "second part of your letter about dialogue has tiresomely been lost or maybe only delayed in the mail, but I guess it will turn up one of these days"; laying out his own thoughts on the script; describing an exhibit he saw recently at the Met of French couture from 1910-1940; telling her they have agreed to rent props and furniture from Warner Brothers for the Mission Inn but their art director Harry Horner has been forced to withdraw from the project because the budget is so low; asking about Cary Welch; telling her they have moved out of Joe Saleh's office and that Joe and Merchant "had a fight and that was the last straw for Ismail"; observing that "[o]nly Mohan is left there" and "I feel sorry for him"; noting that Merchant leaves for London tomorrow.