January 8, 1896gy

Dear ......,

It has been many years since you last saw me, and you were only four at the time, so it is most certain you have little or.non recollection of me, your father's brother ........ First of all I offer you and your mother my most sincere condolences for your loss, for, despite the unfortunate event in that cursed winter of ----, I held my brother very dear, and it goes without saying the world has lost not only a great father, husband, and brother, but a once highly esteemed man of science.
Despite the delirious turn your father's last assertions, his observation of the heavens outside our atmosphere were once highly regarded as an example of rigorous science of utmost credibility.

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Curious collection of letters

After my father's death, his brother Albert –being my uncle, though I never thought of him as such, as I we never saw much, if any, of him– began writing to me in an attempt to reestablish contact with "his long-lost nephew, whom he thought of as a son". His letters started as a cordial familial exchange but slowly revealed how my (apparently) sane uncle descended into absolute madness, probably victim to the same illness of the brain my father ultimately succumbed to. For this reason –documentation of the progression of the mental disease which affected my uncle (and father)– and no other have I decided to publish these letters. Some may say (as many already have said) that the ridiculous set of events described by my uncle should perhaps not be dismissed so easily, but, in this day and age I am sure that most readers will agree that the accounts are simply delirious fiction resulting from an addled (even guilt-wracked) mind.

With this I would like to leave the reader explore my uncle's unfortunate descent into madness.

_ Stone