Vol. I, Letter III, pp. 18–19
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910
PML 16799
Vol. I, pp. 18–19
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p. 18
my crew are gallant fellows & I am firm of purpose;
p. 19
The appearance of the sky is indiscribably beautiful; clear by day, and illuminated at night by the Aurora Borealis which spreads a roseate tinge over the heavens, & over the sea which reflects it’s splendour.
One or two hard gales, and the carrying away of a mast,