Letter signed Ann Biddle to John F. Darby. States that she has not written before because she has understood that he was in Ste. Genevieve. She is desirous of knowing about the sale of the lot to Messrs. Hood and Abbott. Gov. Miller has spent a week with Major Graham, and hence she supposes that they have had all necessary explanations on the subject of the contemplated sale. She has $4,000 in the bank which she wishes loaned out as soon as practicable., 1835 June 25

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.