Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, [1966 January 26] : typescript signed.

Commenting on the recent crash of Air India Flight 101 at Mont Blanc in France, and mentioning that Madhur is concerned that a friend of hers who was "Dr. Babha's assistant and always went everywhere with him" may also be dead [Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, founder and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, was killed in the crash]; describing an article in the New York Post on "the Toad of Toads" [Indira Gandhi]; enclosing his Talk of the Town piece from the New Yorker, which describes the New York memorial service for Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who had recently died in Uzbekistan, and saying he has been commissioned to do another; saying business has fallen off somewhat for "Shakespeare Wallah" in the U.K.; discussing aspects of the story for "the Ustad film" [later "The Guru"]; in a handwritten postscript, making suggestions for "when you get ready to do an outline."