Letter signed Jane McDaniel (in another hand), Leasburg, N.C., to John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri. States that she has a new overseer and that everything is going smoothly. Price is still living in the same place and Sally has another daughter. John McDaniel’s widow has been there and left her eldest son to go to school. Persons mentioned include Mr. Brooks, Buck Darby, John Corbell, John Price, Hiram, Polly, Miss Fanny Pruet, and John C. McDaniel. Places mentioned include Frogsborough., 1835 Feb 22

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.