Letter signed Jane McDaniel, Leasburg, N.C., to John F. Darby. Regarding family news. States that all her grandchildren of any account have gone. Writes of poor Sally and of Price, who is drinking more than ever. Mentions that she has hired her negroes out. Persons mentioned include Betsy, Edmund, Mary Jane, Fanny Pruet, John, Jane Jonston, Major Holder, and Frances Pruet., 1836 May 11

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3

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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.