Letter signed J.M. Peck, Rock Spring, Ill., to John F. Darby, St. Louis. Answers Mr. Darby’s letter of the 11th asking that his sister be admitted to Mr. Peck’s Seminary. At the present the boarding house is full and there is no room to accommodate any more students, fifty of the total eighty of whom reside at the school. The terms are one dollar per week for board, exclusive of washing, and twelve dollars per year for 44 tuition weeks. Persons mentioned include Mr. Bradley. Places mentioned include Edwardsville., 1828 Jan 16

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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.