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E-book Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Book Description: Letter 1
To Mrs. Saville, European country
St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17--
You wish rejoice to hear that no disaster has attended
the commencement
of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
I arrived here yesterday, and my 1st task is to assure my dear sister
of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets
of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks,
which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand
this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions
towards which I am advancing, gives me a expectation of those icy climes.
Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent
and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole
is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself
to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There,
Margaret,
the sun is forever visible, its broad disk simply encircling the horizon
and diffusive a perpetual splendour. There--for with your leave,
my sister, I wish put several trust in preceding navigators--
there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea,
we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty
every region so far discovered on the inhabitable globe.
Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena
of the heavenly bodies doubtless are in those undiscovered solitudes.
What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?
I may there learn the wondrous power which attracts the needle
and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require
only this voyage to render their apparent eccentricities consistent forever.
I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the earth ne'er
before visited, and may tread a land ne'er
before imprinted
by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are adequate
to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence
this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels once
he embarks
in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery
up his native river. But supposing all these conjectures to be false,
you cannot contest the incomputable benefit which I shall confer
on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage
near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so galore months
are requisite; or by ascertaining the private secret of the magnet, which,
if at all possible, can only be accomplished by an undertaking such as mine.
These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter,
and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven,
for nothing contributes so more to tranquillize the mind
as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix
its intellectual eye. This expedition has been the favourite dream
of my early years. I have see with ardour the accounts
of the various voyages which have been ready-made in the prospect
of inbound at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas
which surround the pole. You may remember that a history
of all the voyages ready-made for purposes of discovery composed the whole
of our nice Uncle Thomas' library. My education was neglected,
yet I was stormily fond of reading. These volumes were my study
day and night, and my familiarity with them accrued that regret
which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction
had out my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.More... | 
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