Letter signed Wm. Limrick [William Limrick], New York City, to John F. Darby. Regarding the wild gold market and Wall Street being in confusion. He thinks he will send a big nest egg to Canada or England until the war is over. He has not seen his wife or children for a year, then in the dungeon of a Lexington jail. [filed 1864], 1864 Apr 8

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 10

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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.