Letter from James Ivory, London, England, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, New York, New York, 1986 October 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking her to deposit some checks and mail a card for him; ruminating on the "Maurice" script, which will begin shooting tomorrow, and comparing certain scenes with similar ones in "A Room with a View"; writing at length about "[t]he collapse of Julian Sands" and Ivory's earlier experience with the mentally-ill husband of his friend Audrey; saying that John Malkovich has been trying to look after Sands; expressing gratitude that Sands admitted that he couldn't do "Maurice" and left Ivory time to find a suitable replacement; hoping Sands will recover; asking if Merchant has told her that "we are all going to the Caribbean in mid-December" to spend Christmas and Merchant's birthday [also December 25], and citing an article on the British Virgin Islands as a "very promising" possibility for this holiday; asking if Jhab has "gotten any offers because of New York Magazine?"