Executive Mansion,
Washington, Oct. 10,
1864.
MY DEAR NICOLAY:
How are your mails for this morning. We are very busy. . . .
Pennsylvania fellows are very confident. You will know the
result before this gets here.
Kelly was here this morning. He seemed to be in a great
hurry, as he only staid two hours and a half, and didn't talk about himself
more than nine-tenths of the time.
No fun — no Christmas! Thank God you are not here. We are
dreary enough. The weather is nasty.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 233; Michael Burlingame, Editor, At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War
Correspondence and Selected Writings, p. 96-7
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