Autograph letter signed by writer and U.S. politician Charles Upham dated 1856

UPHAM, Charles Wentworth Upham (1802–1875). Autograph letter signed to William S. Robinson (“Warrington”). Salem, 8 November 1856.
 
Single lea, written on both sides (approx. 200 × 125 mm), on blue wove paper. Old adhesive residue to right margin, not affecting text; very good
 
A political letter written by Charles Wentworth Upham, then Mayor of Salem and a former U.S. Congressman, to the abolitionist journalist William S. Robinson, known by his pen name “Warrington”. Upham writes in a tone of personal and political goodwill, recalling Robinson’s “able discharge of the service in the Convention” and expressing continued support. Written during the turbulent presidential campaign of 1856—the first contested by the newly formed Republican Party. Robinson was a prominent radical journalist and political organiser, and the correspondence links two key figures of this election.
 
Upham is best remembered today as the author of Salem Witchcraft (1867), the influential two-volume study that shaped modern understanding of the 1692 trials. Political letters by Upham are uncommon.