Letter from James Ivory, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1990 March 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Outlining the "odd bits & pieces" he is sending: describing the thoughts and processes behind translating a scene from the "Jefferson in Paris" script into French; describing a show he attended [at the Met?] of Faie Joyce's clothing designs, and how he discovered another show of 18th century French and English dress in the basement; reporting on the recent "MIP show" at the Angelika Film Center, and on the surprising popularity of "A [sic] Perfect Murder," which he maintains had to be partly the responsibility of director Zafar Hai-- "it can't all have been done by [assistant director] Mark Potter & [cinematographer] Walter Lassally"; describing a production of "Abduction from the Seraglio" he saw at the Met; describing Rex Harrison's birthday party, thrown by Harrison's wife Mercia, where they met Joe Mankiewicz; confessing to feeling "so depressed about our kind of moviemaking just now"; emphasizing the need for action in the "Howards End" script, and avoiding what he sees as the major flaws in "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"; vowing, "Never again will I not build into the schooting schedule a proper credit sequence, amde expressly for titles."