Dedication and preface note

Dracula


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 elimated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact.  There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within range of knowledge of those who made them.

Comments

[Bryan]

Stoker’s friend Henry Hall Caine. The nickname is from the Manx, appropriate for Manxman Caine, and means “little Tommy.”
Steven Kaye points us to this biography of Caine, which includes this odd detail about his copyright advocacy job:

"In 1895 he went to Canada for the Society of Authors and the Colonial Office to negotiate for the introduction of copyright protection in the dominion."

(http://www.mcb.net/manxmen/bbiog.html)

[john mark glinoga]

the novel is more realistict