Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1966 May 31 : typescript signed.

Recounting in detail the day of Lillian Ross's son Erik's christening, with Merchant and J.D. Salinger as god-fathers; musing on the question of whether he misses India; describing how he sees New York and the things it offers to inspire him; elaborating on the more unpleasant aspects of New York, and how much Merchant dislikes it, yet thrives on it; describing a night out with William Shawn, Lillian Ross, and two other women, and describing Merchant's newest budhi, Enid Haupt [wrongly described as the owner of Mademoiselle magazine; she was the publisher of Seventeen]; discussing a few aspects of the Ustad film ["The Guru"] script; asking Ruth to pass on to Ved Mehta that Hella Pick will be in town soon, asking how she liked Wallace Shawn, and giving news of Foo (Felicity Kendal) and Madhur's latest jobs.