There is an Alfred Wallis exhibition at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge – it is closed now and was going to run until early January but will presumably be extended (IF there isn't a third lockdown, groan at the thought). Wallis (1855-1942) lived in Cornwall throughout his life, working on deep sea fishing boats and then as a marine scrap merchant. He only turned to painting when he was in his seventies.

This picture of Kamala Harris with the Obamas is uplifting and inspiring. 'When they go low, we go high.'

And now the wonderful rightness of Kamala Harris being married to someone Jewish! Someone Jewish who looks so nice and normal and maybe can exorcise the horror (for Jews) of being in any way at all associated with people like Robert Maxwell and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein – gross, the lot of them, they make one bitterly ashamed. Doug Emhoff is an incredibly cheering symbol of goodness and kindness and normality and decency. Let's start praying now that the media don't manage to smear him with anything, obviously they are trying but maybe they just can't find anything. (And please don't write and say that the Post should stick to art and architecture and 'easy on the eye' subjects. It mostly does – next week will be the work of the primitive artist Alfred Wallis – but, repeat after me, Publishing Is Political.)

This is a wonderful picture: Kamala Harris (on the right) with her friend Gwen Whitfield at an anti-apartheid demonstration at Howard University in Washington in 1982 when she was 18. Here is a piece from the LA Times about life at Howard.

At Persephone Books part of our heart will always remain in India. It is not just the beauty, the colour, the literature (The Far Cry, A Passage to India and the Raj Quartet are all eternal favourites) but, obviously, the people. They are so incredible that it is impossible to describe to anyone who hasn't been there. On our last trip to India we were only thirty miles from the village where Kamala Harris's ancestors come from. We can imagine it so well! And here is a picture of some of the wonderful schoolgirls who followed us wherever we went, asking questions (but in a very friendly and unirritating way). If you go to Tamil Nadu it is the schoolgirls, the distant relations of the US Vice-President-Elect that you will think of most often. How incredibly lucky the USA is to have someone like Kamala Harris at the top of government. If only we were so lucky in the UK. One day, one day...

The only possible subject for the Persephone Post this week is the Vice-President-Elect of the United States, Kamala Harris. The universal sense of happiness and relief is palpable. Though we mustn't forget that there are seventy million people who are angry and upset and how they behave over the coming months will be crucial to the wellbeing of all of us. And the Tory government here in the UK can't be too happy, so ditto. For now, let's celebrate. This is Kamala Harris's mother Shyamala Gopalan (1938-2009) with her husband in the mid 1960s, and here is an interesting piece about the whole family.

We had been hoping to hold off on the Post until we could find some link between Joe Biden and the Abbatts. But it is ten o'clock in the morning here in the UK and that is not yet possible. So, for the last Post in this possibly momentous week, a picture of the Abbatts themselves; whom we rather revere after reading about them and looking at their work. Also there is a new book about them by Alan Powers, which we shall deffo sell in the shop – when the shop is open (it is now closed, though we are there every day 'fulfilling' orders placed by post and on the website).