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Manuscript of Frankenstein: TEI Transcription transcribed by Wout Dillen

Draft of Frankenstein, [August or September] – [?December] 1816. | Bodleian MS. Abinger c.56 (formerly designated Dep. 477/1) consists of 62 leaves originally bound in Notebook A, one of two now disbound notebooks in which Mary W. Shelley (MWS) drafted the two-volume version of Frankenstein. The draft in c.56 runs from the beginning to the end of Volume I, concluding just as the Creature is about to begin his tale to Victor.

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It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the frame on whic my man compleat teed. , And with an anxiety that almost amount ed to agony I collected instruments of life around me and endeavour to that I might e infuse a spark of being into the lifeless think g that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning, the rain pattered dismally against the window panes, & my candle was nearly burnt out, when by the glimmer of the half extinguish ed light I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. —It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

But how How can I describe my emotion at this catastrophe; or how deli neate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form. His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features h as handsome handsome beautiful. Handsome Beautiful; Great God! His dun yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black & flowing and his teeth of a pearly white ness but these luxuriancies only fomed formed a more horrid contrast with his watry eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,

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Manuscript of Frankenstein: TEI Transcription transcribed by Wout Dillen

Draft of Frankenstein, [August or September] – [?December] 1816. | Bodleian MS. Abinger c.56 (formerly designated Dep. 477/1) consists of 62 leaves originally bound in Notebook A, one of two now disbound notebooks in which Mary W. Shelley (MWS) drafted the two-volume version of Frankenstein. The draft in c.56 runs from the beginning to the end of Volume I, concluding just as the Creature is about to begin his tale to Victor.

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It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the frame on whic my man compleat teed. , And with an anxiety that almost amount ed to agony I collected instruments of life around me and endeavour to that I might e infuse a spark of being into the lifeless think g that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning, the rain pattered dismally against the window panes, & my candle was nearly burnt out, when by the glimmer of the half extinguish ed light I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. —It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

But how How can I describe my emotion at this catastrophe; or how deli neate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form. His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features h as handsome handsome beautiful. Handsome Beautiful; Great God! His dun yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black & flowing and his teeth of a pearly white ness but these luxuriancies only fomed formed a more horrid contrast with his watry eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,