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Saturday Nov. 8" 1884. Charlie and I took a walk over the high bridge and on the bluff opposite Wilbur returning by the ferry. Park went with us. It was a pleasant day, but somehow nothing seems pleasant to me. I am in so unsettled a state. Received a letter from Weir. I wrote to him in June and this is the first I have heard from him. The election is still in doubt both sides claiming it. The Democrats are very threatening but they had better bear in mind that it will not be easy to frighten the men who crushed the Rebellion.

Sunday 9". Charlie and I went over to my studio today to look at my sketches and Laura came later. We had a talk about the birch bark hats. He thinks he can get any quantity of the braid made in Hillsboro very cheaply and he is going to have a quantity made and sent to me. Meanwhile I have written to Mr. Dunlap asking him to interest himself again and telling him of the prospect of getting a quantity of the braid without any expense to him in order to experiment with it and to make a number of the hats. I am a little afraid he will not want to bother with it again but he was much interested before and perhaps may be again. At least it is something to interest me in this dull apathetic life. The Tribune today about concedes the election to Cleveland without actually saying so. I fear that will be the result and try to accept it and to hope it is for the best. I think the Democrats mean to count him in at all hazards and their threats are most disgraceful. I wonder that life long Republicans could ever consent to help them into power.

Monday 10" Charlie and Laura went away by the 11.55 train. They are to be in N.Y. until Friday and then leave for home. Laura was much better than when she came. Mr. Wills wrote me that he could not say when the alterations to my room would be made but that if I came down and saw the contractor I could probably arrange to have it done when it would be most convenient to me. I shall go down tomorrow. A letter from the agent of the New Orleans exhibition telling me he had got my Clouds from Weir and I sent him a blank with the title, price &c ($2000.) Sara had a letter from Mrs. Weir inviting us there. My father, Sara, little Girard and I drove over and called at Capt. Andersons this afternoon. He leaves for Santa Barbara this evening. I gave him a letter I got from Phil Johnson today regarding his property there, but he told me he was going to see about a place he had made an offer for.

Sunday 16" Went to N.Y. Tuesday to attend to the alterations to my room and have remained there until last night in the midst of dust and confusion. My bedroom is more cut off from my studio and I am to give it up as soon as I can remove my things. By persistence, I got the carpenters & masons at work and when I came away yesterday they had got one coat of plaster on the places where the doors were and will finish it tomorrow before I go down. Then I have to fix my sleeping place in the recess and get in order. It is a complete upsetting to me and it will take me a long time to get into the new arrangement. Yesterday in the midst of the dust and confusion Fuller came in with a Mr. Wilson from St. Paul who finally ordered a picture for $600. DeForrest paid me $400 for a sketch he bought last spring which I had supposed he returned and Mr. Kennedy 

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