Letter signed Wilson Primm, Jefferson City, to John F. Darby, St. Louis. Regarding legislative business at Jefferson City, including the signing of the Hallelujah Resolution, the defeat of Geyer’s Bank Resolution, and Strother’s declaration that it is inexpedient to charter a State Bank at the current session of the legislature. Also writes that it was decided not to incorporate the principle of the writer’s resolution into the City Charter. In fact, they refused to grant the exclusive right to the City to suppress gaming. Yesterday the revised City Charter was read a third time and passed. It introduced a bill providing for the sale of the St. Louis Common. There is also a resolution on the subject of common school education now under discussion. Persons mentioned include Mr. Bates [Edward Bates] and O’Neil., 1835 Jan 31

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

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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.