Letter signed A. Biddle [Ann Biddle] to J.F. Darby [John F. Darby]. States that she sent word yesterday that she would sell her lot to Mr. Swearinger for $3,800, one third of the purchase money to be paid at time of sale and the rest in five years with interest at ten percent. Persons mentioned include Maj. Graham and Messrs. George Hood and John C. Abbott., 1835 June 6

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2

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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.