Friendly Missive of an Adept of Hermetic Science and Art

The Lord of Light and of all good things / the God of infinite mercy / be gracious unto you and give to you and to yours in this world and in eternity peace / rest and light!

My friendly greeting first / honored dear sirs / etc. The original text uses "2c.", a common early modern shorthand for "et cetera."

IT has not yet been two months since I—for the first time in my entire life—arrived in London, a world-famous capital of the English Empire— The catchword at the bottom of the page "gelan-" suggests the word continues on the next page as "gelanget," meaning "arrived" or "reached."