Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, New York, New York, 1974 February 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying she'd heard from Tim Seldes that he was expecting royalties for her from the book, and wanting to make "quite clear that this is your book and not mine, and that my only connection with it is that I have given permission for extracts to be used from a screenplay that I wrote"; asking to see the manuscript before he sends it to the publishers; expressing "ever so" much disappointment about Ralph Richardson being unavailable for "Autobiography of a Princess"; confessing she can only picture John Gielgud or Michael Redgrave, who would be equally difficult to get; declaring "I don't fancy John Mills at all" and "Paul Scofield ... would be fine but his age cuts him right out"; reflecting on how old Cyril Sahib should be relative to the Princess and her father; admonishing Ivory not to let Madhur try to look younger, as the character should be in her 50s; expressing her opinions on the issue of a servant for the Princess, and on the internal conflicts of the character of Queenie in "The Wild Party"; mulling over Ivory's idea of incorporating a movie premiere into the plot of the film.