July 2, 2002

Dear Nikola,

This is nothing more than a note, in order to keep in touch.  I hope that you are reasonably well and are taking good care of your parents. 

I find my 90th year no different from the 89th.  I've completed 61 Sonnets to Chronos.  I enjoy reading them.  Whether they are any good is a moot question, since there is no one else who to read them. 

Meaanwhile I've gone back to editing, revising my opera libretto about the Rescue of the Toads (Krötenrettung).  There are many problems both of content and of style that seem insoluble when I first face them, but with which I enjoy wrestling.

If and when you feel like it, please let me know how you are doing. My very best wishes to you and your parents.
EJM