Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, London, England, 1971 July 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Offering long and detailed notes on Ivory's documentary about Nirad Chaudhuri, "Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization"; breaking the "disappointing and distressing" news that she doesn't like Henry James' "The American" any more and elaborating on why; observing that the book could have benefitted from a "knowledge of Proust" and his milieu; contemplating the 19th century relationship between Europe and America, and positing that India has now replaced Europe in that relationship-- "But of course the parallel doesn't hold all the way"; announcing "Ava got into [the Delhi University School of Planning and] Architecture!"; telling him "Jhab is tremendously pleased-- rushing around making drawing-boards and left-handed t-squares for her"; discussing the "cleaning up, clearing up, and typing out" of her latest novel "A New Dominion."