Letter signed Patrick H. Darby, Elizabethtown, to John F. Darby, Frankfort, Ky. Asks that on the receipt of this letter it be returned to the office and the original letter be transmitted to him. He will not be in Frankfort before the 25th of the next month, and asks that Darby be pleased to remain until his return., 1826 Aug 30

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7

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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.