Letter signed John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri, to Geo. T.M. Davis [George T.M. Davis], Alton, Ills. States, “. . . .Do me the favor to drop me a line on the subject of the claims in your hands, which are below. . . .I considered that the Editors of the Mo. Republican, had committed a most unprovoked and unparalleled outrage on your character. . . .” Also mentions the case of Clark against the steamboat B.J. Gilman; note on Wm. B. Farrell [William B. Farrell] of Peoria; cases of Granness and Brother versus Brooks and Cogswell and Granness against William A. Whiting; the case of John and Joseph McFarland versus David Pugh; and the claims against Rhodes due to Lewis taken charge of by Spalding and Tiffany. Persons mentioned include C. Thomson and Co. , 1839 Nov 11

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 9

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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.