Letter signed C. Gratiot [Charles Gratiot], Washington, to J.F. Darby [John F. Darby], Mayor of St. Louis. Introduces Lieut. Lee [Robert E. Lee] both personally and in a business way. Lee is to have charge of conducting the operations for improving the navigation of the Mississippi above the Ohio. The removal of the sandbar at St. Louis is one of the objects to which his attention will be drawn. (includes photostat copy), 1837 July 1

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7

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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.