Letter signed P. Dexter Tiffany, Worcester, to John F. Darby, St. Louis. Concerning the extension of city limits to Grand Avenue and widening Grand to 150 feet, which would ruin Tiffany by cutting off his property. Asks Darby to kill the amendment before the City Council and before the Legislature, which ought not to have rule over streets of St. Louis. [filed 1854], 1854 Dec 11

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8

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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.