Letter from James Ivory, Dinuba, California, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, [1965 October 18] : typescript signed.

Telling Ruth that he has just returned from "a very busy four days in Los Angeles"; recounting a gratifying meeting with a Columbia story editor-- "so nice to be dealing with creative people at Columbia instead of those swine who watch over the business"-- about his idea for a low budget New York-based film; describing the process of "a mad genius, a sculptor from France" that he met in Los Angeles, who creates his sculptures using dynamite; musing on his idea for a "Bombay film" and saying he will send some pages of notes for her perusal; weighing in on Jennifer and Felicity Kendal's "tempests in a teacup"; saying when she writes next, she should write to New York.