Letter signed P. Kincaid, Bonhomme, to John F. Darby, St. Louis. Concerns the “power of attorney business” and instructions to Mr. Darby to transmit the seal of state and the power of attorney to Mr. Charles Kincaid. Persons mentioned include James Power and Mr. Nisbet. Places mentioned include Jefferson and Center Street, Tradestown, Glasgow, North Britain., 1831 Feb 2

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12

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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.