Letter signed Jane McDaniel and Sally Price, N.C., to John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri. Family matters. Price is still behaving unsatisfactorily. Aunt Phebe is dead. States that she wants Darby to come and help take care of her and his grandmother’s interests. Persons mentioned include Mr. Kyle, Cousin Jane, Sally Standfield, Cousin Samuel Johnston, Uncle John, and Hiram. Places mentioned include Mitton., 1831 July 17

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.