Transcriber’s Notes
The cover, which was created by the transcriber by using images of the original blank cover of the book and its frontispiece, is placed in the public domain.
[Contents] was added for the reader’s convenience.
As the first lines of the paragraphs in the original are not indented, in some cases the presence of a paragraph break is not entirely certain. In such cases, insertion of paragraph breaks was determined according to the structure and content of the surrounding text. Page images of the original are available at the Internet Archive: American Libraries ([http://archive.org/details/imarymclanediary00macl]).
Except for the following changes, spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been preserved as printed in the original.
- [Page 43], comma after “were my husband’s” was deleted.
- [Page 59], “ecstasy” was changed from “esctasy”.
- [Page 64], “I’d ’a’” was changed from “I’d’ a’”.
- [Page 82], a period was added after “bastard lacy valentines”.
- [Page 96], “Cornwallis” was changed from “Corwallis”.
- [Page 138], “calefacient” was changed from “calefaciant”.
- [Page 142], “listlessly” was changed from “listessly”.
- [Page 160], “four-and-twenty” was changed from “four-and twenty”.
- [Page 169], “arresting ruination” was changed from “arrest ingruination”.
- [Page 174], “patrician” was changed from “partrician”.
- [Page 175], “Mérimée” was changed from “Merimée”.
- [Page 194], a period was added after “remembrance of myself”.
- [Page 205], “of” was changed from “if”.
- [Page 217], “Soul” was changed from “soul”.
- [Page 227], “philosophers” was changed from “philosphers”.
- [Page 237], an em dash was added before “I keep on”.
- [Page 256], “or” was changed from “of”.
- [Page 276], “highly” was changed from “hightly”.
- [Page 294], a closing single quotation mark was added after “are sweeter”.
- [Page 300], a comma was added after “little fellow cries”.
- [Page 306], “opposite” was changed from “spposite”.