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Settling the Canadian-American boundary dispute in the "wilds" of Maine - 1798.
Folio, 3 pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, minor browning, and soiling to address leaf, else very good, legible condition.
Upton writes his father:
"Honored Sir,
… I wish you & all a happy new year – I shall have as happy a one I presume s I ever saw (if sickness does not prevent) for business is very brisk here, comparing it with what we hear from the westward – I have, as I informed you, the Academy – with which the Trustees appear perfectly satisfied, as well as the People. I have besides considerable writing to do for others which turns to some advantage. But surveying Land bids fair to be of great advantage to me as there is a great deal to survey in a new country like this – and only one person here that understands it, besides myself & he is superannuated. I did not perfectly understand it when I first came here, but have paid such attention to it that I am… Read More

Four volumes, small quarto, 756 pages plus blanks, and several pages of accounts, bound in either original ¼ leather and marbled boards, or ¼ leather and cloth, entries written in a neat legible hand in either pencil or ink. Four diaries kept by Upton as a young man, the first dates from when he was an 18 year old in Portland, Oregon, to 1877 when he graduated from Yale. Upton's diaries contain a frank account of his activities, attending school, preparing for college, and descriptions of life in Portland and later college life at Yale, and his interior life, his religious faith, which was often in conflict with other aspects of his personality, his literary efforts - poetry writing, and constant self-examination - Upton concludes that he suffers from Depression or "hypochondria" as it was then sometimes called. He is by turns self-confident, jealous, and insecure, he was also equipped with a powerful and obsessive attraction for members of the opposite sex, Upton is extremely frank and revealing… Read More