Letter signed Wm. M. McPherson [William M. McPherson], Jefferson City, to J.F. Darby, Washington. States, “. . . .The Legislature has by a large majority removed the Branch Bank from Jackson to the Cape [Girardeau]. . . .Mr. Lacy [Whig member from Cape Girardeau] suggests with some force that the removal should be made now so that the new officers under Pierce could commence business at the Cape. Mr. L has great expectations of a favourable result from the success that attended your efforts in getting the right of way for our road.” Regarding interests of Surveyor General and Carondelet commons and Blair’s repealing resolutions, which he offered Saturday. [filed 1853 Feb], 1853 Feb 8

Item — Box: 3, 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.