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Thanks Crook for his letter and regrets that he cannot accept an invitation to visit Cambridge.

Thanks Crook for his kindness and hospitality during his visit a month earlier. He mentions that Crook appeared as fit as the last time he saw him, forty four years ago. He has just written to Barbara and is looking forward to hearing from her soon.

Letter to Crook that encloses an up to date sample of his composition for clarinet. Score is attached (8 pages). Talks about trying to complete his book, 'Scottish Chamber Music in the Eighteenth Century'.

Johnson suggests meeting Crook when he visits Cambridge between 15 and 18 August.

Despite a 'fight' with the Musica Scotica at Glasgow University, his book is finally to be published on 1st February. Informs Crook that he has applied for a large grant from the Arts Council to write a new opera. Alternatively, he may spend next year writing another volume for Musica Scotica.

Thanks Crook for the advice about academic plagiarism. He assures Crook that he will not tell Katherine, the ambitious new research Fellow, about parts of his unfinished research that still matter to him.

Asks If he can send a score of his opera to Crook and to Prof. Roger Parker to look at. He wonders if both of the above could go to the production in London, scheduled for April.

Thanks Crook for his letter of the 6th and tells him of his effort to give up smoking. He asks for Crook's opinion of C.S. Lewis's children's books. His new cello suite is progressing . He has bought a small computer, which he believes will save him time writing the libretto

Informs Crook that he has hardly planned the music, but the fugal opening of Act 3 has a distinct 'sound' already, rather like the opening chorus of a Bach cantata. He states his relief that the quotation from Horace has been explained. He makes reference to RLS's essays entitled 'Virginitus Puerisque' and his learned friend's translation as 'for maidens and youths.' He attaches an amendment to 'sequence 27' as well as Stevenson's original extract (2 pages).

Mentions it did not occur to him that 'virginitus puerisque' might be a quotation and concludes that Stevenson was obviously well-versed in Horace. He has contacted top opera management in Glasgow and San Francisco and both companies have said they would read his libretto. His one act opera, 'A Morality For Our Times' is attached (19 pages) along with Alex Munroe's sonata in B minor (8 pages) and the proof sheet for Munroe's profile in the Revised New Grove Dictionary.