The 125th anniversary programming is a return to in-person events, including a dusk-to-dawn marathon reading of the novel at Trinity Church starting this Friday night into Saturday morning, and a theatrical tour of the library and its holdings featuring actors in character.
Those notes are the centerpiece of the Rosenbach’s programming around the 125th anniversary of Dracula, along with a number of first editions and rare books, including a first of Dracula in Gaelic (Stoker was Irish). “We don’t know whether he wrote that in Philadelphia or he did what everybody does: You take the hotel stationery because it’s convenient. performance tour of London’s Lyceum Theater. Stoker used hotel stationery to work out some ideas about Chapter 26, when Mina Harker and Van Helsing travel to Transylvania in search of the missing Jonathan Harker.Įdward Pettit, Rosenbach’s senior manager of public programs, said Stoker may have written those notes while traveling through Philadelphia, managing a U.S. (Courtesy of Print and Picture Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia) It was taken during a time when Bram Stoker was likely staying there and working on his “Dracula” novel.
Some of those notes are written on stationary from Philadelphia’s Stratford Hotel at Broad and Walnut streets, now known as the Bellevue Hotel.Īn 1895 photo shows the Stratford Hotel, now known as the Bellevue Hotel, at Broad and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. The Rosenbach has about 100 pages of notes Stoker wrote while researching and developing his infamous character. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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