Conversation so far:
What happened to Hoffmann in the provinces?
and he started to become "what school principals, parsons, uncles, and aunts call dissolute..
Why caused that?
Masovia.
This was the first time he had lived without supervision by members of his family, and.
How did he deal with that?
His first job, at Posen, was endangered after Carnival on Shrove Tuesday 1802, when caricatures of military officers were distributed at a ball.

Question: Did he do the caricatures?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Hoffman do the caricatures?