Letter signed Justus Post, America, to John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri. Encloses three promissory notes for $70.00 each drawn by Theodore and W.P. Hunt [Wilson P. Hunt] in favor of Wm. M. O’Hara [William M. O’Hara] and assigned to C.P. Zoeller, together with an order from S.G.J. DeCamp (Zoeller’s Administrator) on Cozen’s administrators for two other similar notes which were put in Cozen’s hands for collection [no enclosures included]. Post wants the matter settled without pomp. Persons mentioned include Walsh & Hall, Mr. Hapler, H. Gamble [Hamilton Gamble], and R. Smith. Places mentioned include Trinity, Washington, Europe, and Dubuque’s., 1832 June 5

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13

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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.