I took the cover off my typewriter, and said to Dr.Seward, "Let me write this all out now.

We must be ready for Dr.Van Helsing when he comes.

I have sent a telegram to Jonathan to come on here when he arrives in London from Whitby.

In this matter dates are everything, and I think that if we get all of our material ready, and have every item put in chronological order, we shall have done much.
"You tell me that Lord Godalming and Mr.Morris are coming too.

Let us be able to tell them when they come." He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventeenth cylinder.