Letter signed C. Campbell, Saint Louis, to J.F. Darby [John F. Darby], Mayor of St. Louis. States that there are at present two cases of small pox in the hospital, and that it is necessary to put the patients on the same floor with other patients. Suggests that the small pox hospital edifice, which is completed as to building, be also made ready as to furniture, etc., 1835 Feb 28

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.