Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1984 January 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing the scene at a loft party for Karan's 23rd birthday; reporting that "ismail says Jennifer is feeling very poorly indeed and looks bad [after radiation treatements for cancer]," and wondering how Jhabvala could have seen her as "radiant" when she saw her; saying Shashi and their daughter Sajana will be joining Jennifer in London soon; telling her he finally took down the Christmas tree at Claverack and describing hosting Dick and "the Jingles," who were mesmerized by the new television: "I think we have installed some sort of Molloch which is going to eat us all up"; saying he recently "had a nice letter from Maestro" saying he has recovered from his illness and is working on an adaptation of a Tagore novel, and complimenting "Heat and Dust"; assuming that by the time she gets this letter they will have talked about the editing [of "The Bostonians"] so he won't go into it here.