News from the Republic of Letters Volume 1, Letter 1

Fellows of the Royal Society at Crane Court,
Fleet Street, London.

My Dearest Fellows:

Please forgive my inability to travel to London to report directly to The Fellows on my current plans to visit the new Optiks Laboratory in the Duche de Coeur. As you can see from this small self-potrait I have included, my packing is almost complete.

At your direction, I have included copies of numerous books from my publishing house and hope to see a brisk business to recoup some of the expenses of my continental travel. One of the newer portable printing presses has also been crated and all of these items shall make their own way to the Duche, separate from me.

I continue to be much frustrated by my inability to discern the director of this new experimental laboratory. All of my letters of inquiry continue to be returned by a Madame Alchemi. I can only assume that it is her husband who is dictating these responses and she is inadvertently signing them with her own name instead of his.
This is but one discovery I hope to make on this journey.

The time draws near for me to be in Dover to sail across the Channel to Calais.

With much haste, I bid Adieu

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