Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
PML 16799
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910
Transcription
and this suspicion fills us with anguish. I perceive that your father attempts to conceal his fear from me; but cheerfulness has flown from our little circle, only to be restored by a certain assurance that there is no foundation for our anxiety. At one time my uncle being almost persuaded that you were indeed dangerously ill, could hardly be restrained from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt.