Letter from James Ivory, Claverack, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1991 March 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing and advising on Jhabvala's health; informing on changes made to the script for Howards End; discussing the public reception of Mr. and Mrs. Bridge ("keeps opening in more and more theatres everywhere, even in very small towns where our films don't usually play"; "Miramax [...] are happy, poor things"), with mention of its reception in London ("they don't like us over there when the film isn't about them. They like to be flattered and reassured"); relaying the story of invitations from the king and queen of Spain to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward and to Robert Sean Leonard; discussing the film Edward Scissorhands; recounting a dinner with Cary and Edith Welch, including mention of their support of Vanessa Redgrave's "PLO stand"; relaying a story of Donald [Rosenfeld?] successfully bidding on a dining table at Christie's on Ivory's behalf; describing a card Ivory received informing him "that 'our eponymous hero' i.e Dan[?] [...] had had a rose named after him and they were happy to send us a rose bush of this new breed" ("He's not my hero, whether eponymous or any other kind of hero").