Letter signed A.B. Chambers, Bowling Green, to John F. Darby, St. Louis, Mo., favor of Mr. P. Block. Sends herewith the amount of the note of Tunis and Cornwall. He has not yet succeeded in getting a trial in the cause in which he procured the deed of Justus Post. Events are beginning to grow warm in the election. He thinks it likely that a majority on the Mississippi will be for the amendments. Persons mentioned include B.F. Campbell, T. Barnett, and Mr. James C. Essex., 1834 May 30

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.