Letter signed Jos. B. Wilkinson, New Orleans, to Jno. F. Darby [John F. Darby], St. Louis, Missouri. Regarding land and business. Do not let anything in the way of evidence be neglected in the coming trial with Mr. Yeatman. Mr. Sibley from St. Charles can be got as well as the old gentleman from the country. [filed 1851 Jan-Mar], 1851 Mar 5

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5

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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.