Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1971 December 24 : typescript signed.

Wondering why she hasn't been getting his letters; describing the delirium-inducing flu he endured during Christmas, including Christmas Eve with Joe and Angelika Saleh, Christmas Day dinner with "Dick and Phillipa," and exile from Lillian Ross's-- "I don't have any fever, haven't since night before last, but am not to be allowed to approach the Child"; mentioning that Merchant "did some damn-fool things while he was in Rajastan [sic] and it's a wonder he's not in jail"; noting that "all the applications for Renana are in" and he can turn to "frivolous topics" like the rash on his leg; describing in detail his visit to a dermatologist, "a Viennese lady named Helen"; telling her that William Shawn is in the hospital "with a bad shoulder and exhaustion," his son Wally is home, and Shashi's father Prithviraj Kapoor is in New York being treated for Hodgkin's disease, accompanied by his son Raj Kapoor and someone named "Narinder"; wondering "what is going to happen to me when I'm old and sick in New York and alone? Who is going to look after me? [...] What will I do? I haven't managed things right at all."