A Teleprint Custom Reprint

Teleprint Publishing Charlottesville, Virginia

1985

CASPAR HAUSER.

ACCOUNT

OF AN INDIVIDUAL KEPT IN A DUNGEON, SEPARATED
FROM ALL COMMUNICATION WITH THE WORLD,
FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD TO ABOUT THE

AGE OF SEVENTEEN.

DRAWN UP FROM LEGAL DOCUMENTS.

BY ANSELM VON FEUERBACH,,
President of one of the Bavarian Courts of Appeal, &c.

Righteous Hoaven, who has permitted
All this wo; what fatul crime,
Was by me, o'en at the timo

Of my haploss birth, committed.

SIGISMUND.

In Calderon's Life, a Dream. '

TRANSLATED FROM THE, GERMAN.

SECOND EDITION.

BOSTON:

ALLEN AND TICKNOR.

Reprinted by permission

of the publisher, 1985.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832,
BY ALLEN AND TICKNOR,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of

Massachusetts.

R. BUTTS, SCHOOL STREET.

A

DEDICATION.

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1098

H2F43E

1985

TO HIS LORDSHIP, THE EARL OF STANHOPE,

Peer of Great Britain, &c.

To no one could this dedication have been addressed with greater propriety than to your Lordship; in whose person, Providence has appointed to the youth, without childhood and boyhood, a paternal friend and powerful protector. Beyond the sea, in fair old England, you have prepared for him a secure retreat, until the rising sun of truth shall have dispersed the darkness which still hangs over his mysterious fate; perhaps, in the remainder of his half murdered life, he may yet hope for days, for the sake of which, he will no longer regret his having seen the light of this world. For such a deed, none but the genius of humanity can recompense You.

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In the vast desert of the present times, when

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