Letter signed P. Chouteau & Co., New York, to John F. Darby, Saint Louis, Missouri. Financial statement for rugs and mirrors. Includes letter signed J.F.A. Sanford, New York, to John F. Darby, regarding the purchase of the articles. Sanford is sure that Mrs. Darby will admire them. Articles would have been delivered two weeks earlier had it not been for wet weather. He assures Darby that he got the best prices in the city. [filed 1849], 1849 June 6

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4

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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.