CLARE SHERIDAN CLARE SHERIDAN (Photograph by Francis Bruguiere)...

Copyright, 1922, By Boni and Liveright, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America...

To those I have met in this country who have not misunderstood me....

The publication of an American diary requires neither apology nor explanation, especially when it is more a record than a criticism. Besides, the “best people” seem to do it. I have upon my desk an old volume entitled: “Travels in the United States, etc., during 1849 and 1850,” by the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortly. It is dedicated with some pomp “to the Countess of Chesterfield by her most affectionate cousin the authoress.” By a strange coincidence we seem to have trodden the same paths, and oftt

February 2, 1921. The Biltmore, New York. What a funny life! I do not know myself, nor what I have become, and yet when I look in the glass I am the same. I seem to be a machine—I have no soul; rapidly I am losing all mind. From morning till night newspaper reporters ask me questions, I am told I have to submit—if I were impatient or cross they would write something nasty. So I am amiable! I go on talking the same stuff about Lenin and Trotzky! How they would laugh if they could hear me! I’ve be