Seems curiously quiet for election day, & has been all the time here—At my proposal Ed Wilkins went over to Phila: from 12 to 3 & took a note I sent to Tom Donaldson—(Ed says D treated him like a prince)—I am feeling better still—weather fine to day, sunny, rather warmish—I am trying to write a very short concluding note to the big book but it holds fire, don't suit me—& this is all that keeps matters back—but n'importe—we are in no way hurry—
Yours came to-day—it is indeed queer you don't hear from Wm Gurd at all ('twas me I should be uneasy)—Tom Harned was here last evn'g—Horace too—a good deal ab't the election & "politics"—(the whole contest ab't high tariff & free trade is too previous & sophomorical at present—too abstract—But it will be a great point one of these days)—Whatever is done or happens at present the U S will prosper, grow, advance, in the nature of things, these ages—
Wednesday A M Nov. 7—Don't seem to be defined yet who is elected President—you will probably know before this reaches you—Fine weather still—I continue pretty well—No Osler for ten days—Ed Wilkins pleases me—Did you get the Phil: Times Oct 27 with a quarter column notice of Nov. B?—If not I will send it you—As I write I am sitting here as usual in the big chair by the stove—window a little open—every thing quiet & comfortable—
Walt Whitman