Cordelia,

I wish you a pleasant birthday today and hope that both this owl and package reach you intact. Also, please accept my congratulations for your selection to fill in for your Ancient Runes professor. It is a great honour to have been chosen over your peers and I am certain you will do a lovely job.

I was fortunate enough to come upon your gift, which I know you will take great pleasure in as you have been searching for it for quite awhile. Also attached is a smaller package filled with a gift from Angelique and the rest of the office, so please remember to send the appropriate gratitudes to them as soon as possible.

Your mother and I look forward to having you and your sister home for the winter holiday.

Have a lovely day.

Attached is an extremely rare copy of the full score of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. The smaller package from her father's secretary and the other staff from his office in Paris contains a new set of quills and a pair of satin-lined gloves.