Hope you have better weather in y'r Washington spree &c than we here—dark, rainy, half fog, & every way mean & untravelable here—I am still buoyed with the favorable news they bring from you—Dr, Horace & Wm Gurd (the inventor) here this afternoon—every thing goes favorably with the meter enterprise.
I am sitting here by the fire & gaslight, near 7—don't you get these cards early forenoon?—
W W