Clarie's Memoir

Clarie defines herself as this little speck, this grasshopper looking for fun. Her letters show a complicated, deep emotional person not just a hedonist and definitely not a speck. Relationships drove her live. This is a sort of autobiography about other people. Among these other people were the men she loved and married. Marriages gave her access to other ways of living, of being. Through her marriages, she got many things, opportunity, purpose, travel. The beginnings of this lifelong search for love and fulfilment are mented in her private diary. We found it buried in a file in a box at the library of congress. Inside is clarie's tne