Today began well with the arrival by email of a translation which a colleague was making for me from French of an 18th century alchemical text. Hopefully I will find time later in the evening to read through this. It is a most interesting alchemical manuscript with a series of coloured illustrations which I have wanted to publish for many years. Now the translation has been made I hope to be able to publish this in my Magnum Opus series in January or February. Much of today will have to be taken up with bookbinding chores as I have a few orders for books to deal with.

I have decided to start a weblog of my activities related to my work with alchemy and the alchemy website. The Alchemy Website www.levity.com  also mirrored at www.alchemywebsite.com  was established in 1996 and is now the most established and authoritative site devoted to alchemy on the internet. It gets about 2000 hits a day and in the ten years it has been running has got well over one million hits.