Letter from James Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1987 : autograph manuscript signed.

Enclosing a marked-up copy of "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"; telling her he is leaving for Delhi via Paris soon, and unsure if he'll actually travel though to "Khajarao" as planned or not; hinting darkly that "[a]ll is silence from Khajarao," where "The Deceivers" is currently experiencing a problem-ridden shoot; noting that everything anyone "writes about us has either a pun on our individual names ... or on 'Room with a View'," and even New York real estate ads are using the phrase "room with a view" ad nauseum; observing that, while he's pleased that "Room" has finally replaced "Shakespeare Wallah" as their signature work, "It's getting a bit much"; describing the "Deceivers" rushes he's seen, and praising the work of Walter Lassally, Jenny Beavan, John Bright, and others; pronouncing "there has never been a more opulent looking MIP movie made in India on the surface, including probably "Heat and Dust" ... But as soon as the characters open their mouths, any resemblance to a MIP film flies out the window"; assuming this won't matter to the current audience; observing wryly that all the "Jane Austen scenes are going to contrast very well with all those garrotings and exhumed corpses and-- who knows, even a suttee, which I'm sure Ismail will manage somehow."