Letter signed Hiram Darby, Bonhomme, Mo., to John F. Darby, Frankfort, Kentucky. Regarding social matters – friends and their activities. He is going to school now, but intends to go into business next spring. He can get $100.00 a year for his work, including everything but clothes. He is paying fifty cents per week for his board and two dollars a quarter for his tuition. McAllister has bought the Stokes’ farm down at St. Louis, and paid thirty-five hundred dollars for it at public sale. Persons mentioned include Betsy, Thos. Caulk [Thomas Caulk], Mr. Russell, Rachel, Sam, Sam Worthington, Peggy Fittwater [or Fitzwater], Sally Worthington, McAlister, Stokes, George H. Lewis, Martrom Lewis, and George Frasure [or Frazier]. Places mentioned include St. Louis. (includes typed transcription), 1825 Dec 20

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6

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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.