April 1, 1943 EC
Dear Mrs. Koller,
I hope you and your husband have been well since our last round of letters, and I hope you've maintained that drive for knowledge that you showcased in your writing. Please accept my apologies for my irregular pace of letters; the university faculty is still hard at work preparing for the anticipated deluge of students now that the war is seemingly over. Just between you and me, I believe the Vinns have something to do with it; this program just seems so very New World. Despite this, I cannot complain in the slightest. The older generation to whom I belong most certainly understands the gravity of this honor, to accept into Edinburgh's institutes of learning the generation that had defended the Federation for the past seven years and had finally brought the Empire to its knees. May the golden eagle stay grounded forever.
Enclosed in this package alongside this letter are my notes I have prepared for you as requested, as well as interesting excerpts from studies and surveys I believe will be of much use to you in drafting and publishing your chapter on Edinburgh and other areas of the Federation. I may have also included additional bits and pieces of quite earth-shattering stories that have just been published here in our corner of Europa. I understand all too well that to condense almost two thousand years' worth of Edinburgh history (and the events of this century alone) into a legible chapter is a tall order, and I wish you the best of luck in your quest.
By the time you are reading this at home or wherever else you might be, I will be well into the task of compiling information for you pertaining to the Valois Republic as you had said you needed. For the purpose of transparency, I have outsourced part of this task to a good colleague of mine from the University of Fontainebleau who is currently visiting Castleton.
My best,
Owen Welch, Ph.D.
Professor of History
University of Castleton