To My Dear Friend Hommy-Beg...

How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that the history almost at variance with the possibilities of ...

3 May. Bistritz.⁠—Left Munich at 8:35 p.m., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Budapest seems a wonderful place, from the glimp...

5 May.⁠—I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as sev...

When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the convicti...

I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, the...

Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra. “9 May. “My dearest Lucy⁠— “Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress ...

Mina Murray’s Journal. 24 July. Whitby.⁠—Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely pla...

Cutting from The Dailygraph, 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal.) From a Correspondent. Whitby. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results b...

Mina Murray’s Journal. Same day, 11 o’clock p.m.⁠—Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay...

Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra. “Budapest, 24 August. “My dearest Lucy⁠— “I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear...

Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood. “6 September. “My dear Art⁠— “My news today is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from i...

Lucy Westenra’s Diary. 12 September.⁠—How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fi...

Dr. Seward’s Diary. 18 September.⁠—I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I fear...

Dr. Seward’s Diary⁠—continued. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane und...

Mina Harker’s Journal. 23 September.⁠—Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that h...

Dr. Seward’s Diary⁠—continued. For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:⁠— “Dr. Van Helsing...

It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded...

Dr. Seward’s Diary⁠—continued When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:⁠— “Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.⁠—Mina Harker.” The Prof...

Dr. Seward’s Diary. 30 September.⁠—I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which...

Jonathan Harker’s Journal. 1 October, 5 a.m.⁠—I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold...

Jonathan Harker’s Journal. 1 October, evening.⁠—I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my ...

3 October.⁠—Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed...

3 October.⁠—As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o’clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward a...

Dr. Seward’s Diary. 3 October.⁠—The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the ...

Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, Spoken by Van Helsing. This to Jonathan Harker. You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search⁠—if I can call it so, for it is not search but ...

Dr. Seward’s Diary. 11 October, Evening.⁠—Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. I think that none of us were surprise...

Dr. Seward’s Diary. 29 October.⁠—This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; so...

Mina Harker’s Journal. 1 November.⁠—All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best spee...

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy’s birthday is...