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A. letter from the Hon. C. W. Upham. was read by the 

 President as follows : 



Salem, Jan. 23, 1865. 



Hon. Asahel Huntington, 



President of the Essex Institute. 

 DEAR SIR : 



It is eminently proper for every literary 

 and scientific association to participate in the honors paid 

 to the memory of EDWARD EVERETT. I regret not to be 

 able to be present at the meeting this evening. 



An uninterrupted friendship, covering a period of more 

 than forty years, frequent and long continued correspon- 

 dence, and much personal intimacy, have given me oppor- 

 tunity to judge of his character. I can say. with the strict- 

 est truth, that every word of encomium in the various 

 forms in which the universal public sentiment has been 

 expressed on the occasion of his death, finds full support 

 in my impressions an'd recollections. In the combination 

 of his natural endowments, the circumstances of his edu- 

 cation and history, and the uses to which he put his great 

 faculties and advantages, he has always appeared to me 

 without a parallel. 



The warmth and tenderness of his heart, his devotion to 

 offices of benevolence, and his calm moral courage, are 

 the traits which ever most arrested my attention. He 

 often encountered vehement hostility, and the tide of 

 popular misunderstanding and misrepresentation some- 

 times threatened to overwhelm him, but he kept on his 

 way patiently and quietly, never yielded to its power, or 

 veered from the course marked out by his convictions of 

 duty. 



He has been the great teacher of his countrymen of 

 two generations, constantly pouring forth from his won- 

 derful resources of knowledge and genius, the most useful 

 information and the noblest sentiments. An elevating 

 influence has pervaded all the productions of his pen, 

 and inspired his eloquence. He has pushed forward the 

 intelligence, and stimulated the progress of society stead- 

 ily for more than half a century. If his unrecorded acts 

 of courtesy, kindness, and usefulness in the daily routine, 



