Letter signed Sally Price and Jane McDaniel, [Leasburg, N.C.], to John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri, favor of Mr. Damern. Urge Darby to come see them in the spring and not to disappoint them. Fanny Prewit is living with Jane McDaniel in her home and is very smart. Sally Price’s children are very promising. Persons mentioned include Uncle George Darby, Halaway (or Holloway), Uncle Hiram, Jane, John, and Mary Jane., 1834 Mar 1

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15

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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.