Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1987 March 3 : autograph manuscript signed.

Musing over some possible embellishments for a character in "Slaves of New York"; answering her question about whether he hasn't "had enough of E.M. Forster": "Actually, no"; elaborating on the pleasures, for him, of adapting Forster's work; describing how "Dick [Robbins] has developed an allergy to Simon" and they have had to send him to stay with someone else; telling her "Jimmy Coco died last week"; describing the circumstances of Coco's death; updating her on their friend Chuck [McCaughan].