Dracula Bram Stoker (1) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL (_Kept in shorthand._) _3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (2) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL--_continued_ _5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been able to see it by daylight. When the calèche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out his hand to assist me to alight. Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength. His ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (3) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL--_continued_ When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild 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 conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap. When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly--as ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (4) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL--_continued_ I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had 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, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details. But these things are no proof, ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (5) Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra._ "_9 May._ "My dearest Lucy,-- "Forgive long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously. When we are married I shall be able to be useful ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (6) MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL _24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is. The valley is beautifully green, and it is so steep that when you are on the high land on either ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (7) CUTTING FROM "THE DAILYGRAPH," 8 AUGUST (_Pasted in Mina Murray's Journal._) From a Correspondent. _Whitby_. of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in the neighbourhood of Whitby. The steamers _Emma_ and _Scarborough_ ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (8) MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL _Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us. I believe we forgot everything except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start. We had ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (9) _Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._ "_Buda-Pesth, 24 August._ "My dearest Lucy,-- "I know you be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming to Jonathan, and, that as I should have to do some nursing, I had better get all the sleep I could.... I found my ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (10) _Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._ "_6 September._ "My dear Art,-- "My news to-day not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that my old master, Van Helsing, the great specialist, was coming to stay with me, and that I would put her in his charge conjointly with myself; so now we can come and go without ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (11) Lucy Westenra's Diary._ _12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to sleep without fear. I shall not mind any flapping outside the window. Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (12) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY _18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang again; still no answer. I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an hour--for it was now ten o'clock--and so rang and knocked again, but more impatiently, ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (13) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--_continued_. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out from the death-chamber:-- "She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (14) MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL _23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that come upon him. He will be away all day till ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (15) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--_continued_. For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:-- "Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this. Oh, my friend, why, think you, did I go so far round, why take so long to tell you ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (16) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--_continued_ It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly in front as he led the way. When we had come close to the tomb I looked well at Arthur, for I feared that the proximity to a place laden with so sorrowful a memory would upset him; but he bore himself well. I ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (17) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--_continued_ When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram for him:-- Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA HARKER. The Professor was delighted. Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina, he said, pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your house, friend John. You must meet her at the station. Telegraph her _en route_, so that she may be prepared. When the wire was despatched he had a cup of tea over it he told me of a diary kept by Jonathan ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (18) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY _30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming and had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers' men, of whom Dr. Hennessey had written to me. Mrs. Harker gave us a cup of tea, and I can honestly say that, for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like _home_. When we had finished, ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (19) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL _1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way that every ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (20) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL _1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he was only the assistant to Smollet, who of the two mates was the responsible person. So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph Smollet at home and ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (21) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY _3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well 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. When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries; there seemed none of that unity of purpose between the parts of the ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (22) JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL _3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this 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 are agreed that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God knows, required to-day. I must keep writing at every chance, for I dare not stop to think. All, big and little, must go down perhaps at the end the little things may teach ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (23) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY _3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for the of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see. Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair. To-day he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (24) DR. SEWARD'S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING This to Jonathan Harker. You are to with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him here. Let me tell you that so you will know what we four know already, for I have tell them. He, our enemy, have gone away; he ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (25) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY _11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs. Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to understand that sunrise and sunset are to her times of peculiar freedom; when her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action. This mood or condition begins ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (26) DR. SEWARD'S DIARY _29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour, and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and for our work when we get to Galatz. When the usual time came round Mrs. Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort; and after a longer and more serious effort on the part of Van Helsing than has been ...Read More

Dracula Bram Stoker (27) MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL _1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the journey will be an easy one. Dr. Van Helsing is laconic; he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well to make the exchange of horses. We get hot soup, or coffee, or ...Read More