Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1966 February 27 : typescript signed.

Saying that Madhur is back from Mexico, having gotten her divorce, and while the experience of the divorce and the film shoot were "disagreeable," she loved Mexico itself; describing the dismal opening night of a play Saeed was in; saying he has sold yet another Talk of the Town piece to the New Yorker, and has been shadowing the auxiliary police in Central Park as research; expressing concern about the Indian censors opening their mail; replying in detail to Ruth's "home truths" letter of February 15; asking that, when she writes critically to him in the future, that she "please reserve one paragraph-- and it can be quite long-- for violent denunciation, and then let the rest be about the Ustad film or news from Delhi, because your letters are so eagerly awaited here it seems a pity that any of them should contain only 'home truths' and not other things too"; gently accusing her of having "a romantic idea" of Merchant; saying they must both be careful "not to allow things in our films about which we feel sentimental."