Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1985 February 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing how he is sitting in his car as he writes this, having withdrawn two of his Indian miniature paintings from the bank [presumably from a safe deposit box], which are soon to be taken by courier to North Carolina for an exhibition; listing the cultural offerings he is planning to take in when he is done-- "Rafi Ameer's film on Afghanistan he made; and after that, to Circle in the Square, to Kurt Johnson's play, in which he has a very good part"; noting that the play is directed by Ellis Rabb and Ivory will be dining with Johnson after; informing her of the "bad news" Vanessa Redgrave recently received, of the jury verdict in her suit against the Boston Symphony being overturned by the judge-- "So what was the point of having a trial at all, if a judge can overrule the jury?"; outlining his and Merchant's travel plans-- L.A. - New York - London - Florence - London, "and so home for Dick's opera"; describing how Merchant is scrambling to cobble together funding for "A Room with a View"; telling her "Madeleine [Potter] is back. She said people did not [underlined] boo in the film festival when we won [presumably for "The Bostonians"]; that must have been written by an enemy."