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^T “I Beaufort Frankenstein

in this my eighty-third year of life, do hereby declare the followłng statements as my last will and testament, to be read on the occasion of my one hundredth birthday ... The once proud name of Frankenstein has been dragged by my only son, Victor, into an abyss of shame. There was a time when the name Frankenstein conjured dreams of virtue. Now no misery can be found equal to minę... unless... my only małe helr, my great-grandson, Frederick, whom I have never seen but who is, at the time of this record* fng, ten years of age and residing in America with my granddaughter Kather-ine, has, by his own free will, embraced Medicine as his career and has aegnitted himself with some measure of esteem. Then, to him, I Ieave... EYERYTfflNG!"