the letters of Felix and Safie
These were the letters Safie wrote Felix imploring his aid in the rescue
of her father from prison and that she had translated from Arabic into
French. In recounting this episode, the Creature had promised to give
Victor the copies he had made of them (2.6.3), and this offhand reference
suggests that he did so. The logical completion of that strand of the
narrative does not, of course, explain just why Victor Frankenstein,
embarked on an odyssey of epic proportions where he can scarcely provide
himself with the essentials of life, is carrying the translated
correspondence of a perfect stranger.
