Message from an Old Friend Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Group: Secondary Quests
Location: Novigrad
To start this quest you should talk to Marcus T.K. Hodgson. You will find him inside his bookstore in Novigrad. He'll tell you about the book that someone left for you a few years ago.
Geralt stopped by a certain Novigrad book merchant whose owner recognized him at once. He said someone had left a book with him a long time ago with instructions to give it to Geralt if he ever got the chance. This naturally piqued the witcher's curiosity. Sadly, the book dealer did not know the book's exact present location, only that it had a red cover and that Geralt should look for it in his stacks of dusty tomes and manuscripts.
Related points of interest
Marcus T.K. Hodgson
Velen / Novigrad
Quest stages of Message from an Old Friend
1. Find a book with a red cover using your Witcher Senses.
The book you're looking for - My Manifesto - The Life of Jacques de Aldersberg, is on the second floor, near the stairs to the third floor. Take it and you'll find a letter inside, which will automatically go into your inventory.
2. Read the letter you found folded inside the book "My Manifesto."
Read the Letter from "A".
Letter from "A"
Witcher,
In the ocean of possibility, some events are more likely, and some less. It is not easy to fish out the first, not even when one's intellect stretches through all time and space.
I left this letter for you in the hope that, despite all odds, you will come across it one day, for I must warn you. Mankind is threatened. The prophesied destruction by the White Frost is not just the babbling of some mad she-elf. Perhaps I will have the opportunity to convince you of this in person. If not, I must rely on this letter, which you will read many years from now, at a time when you know more than you did when we first met.
Know that nothing will save the world except preparing its entire population for this catastrophe. The old tales say a Child of the Elder Blood can stave off the danger, but I tried and failed. Ever since I have been haunted by a hideous vision, a crowned wraith. The specter of my failure.
I was the chosen one, and the chosen one failed. You and your brotherhood are our only hope. When the time of the wolf's blizzard comes, men shall perish and only the ubermen will survive. Your duty is to give the world ubermen.
Whatever you think of me, do not fail as I have failed.
-A
You will receive some XP, and 51 crowns.
Geralt found the book and, inside it, a letter from someone he had once known. Though he gave no outward sign of it, this filled him with touching recollections of old times. To this day I don't know who the old friend was nor what he had written in the letter - and that's a shame, for judging by Geralt's behavior, therein lies a very interesting tale...