Letter of recommendation signed James Wood, President; Henry I. Brown; Jonathan Ogden; Silas Condist; Abm. C. Canfield [Abraham C. Canfield]; Edward Conant [or Edward Condist]; Joseph Cutter; Sylvestry D. Russell; S. Hatheway; and William Brittin, State Bank at Morris. Recommends Wm. M. O’Hara [William M. O’Hara] as a satisfactory bank clerk, honest and honorable, sober and industrious, qualified to fill any place in a banking institution. Places mentioned include Bank at Morristown, New Jersey., 1817 Dec 15

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists largely of the papers of John F. Darby and his wife Mary F. Darby, and relates mostly to the political, social, and business history of St. Louis. The papers also include family correspondence with relatives in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri, and correspondence regarding legal and business matters. Of special note are the minute books of the Jefferson Society and the St. Louis Debating Club (1827-1828), both regional debating societies of which Darby was a member; letters of Mary F. Darby; correspondence with Montgomery Blair, William T. Sherman, and George Caleb Bingham; and fragments of a history of the Mormons by John Corrill, dated 1839.