What fortuitous timing! I've just received word that my good friend, Professor Victor Magnus Croft, is alive! He was presumed dead after the mysterious destruction of his laboratory over a year ago. (For those of you who don't recall your history, Professor Croft is the famed inventor of the Aethric Hydrovalve, which is the device that makes all of our self-propelled steamcarriages and airships possible.)
He showed up at the Blackwood Sanatorium last night, delirious and babbling incoherently, but is now resting comfortably. In brief moments of lucidity, he claims to have no memory of his whereabouts from the last 14 months since his disappearance! I understand he had a number of curious items in his possession; I shall acquire a list of them as soon as I'm able to, in hopes that they will shed some light on this mystery.