Letter signed T.H. Becker, Central City, Colorado, to J.F. Darby, St. Louis. Becker has advised Mr. Lounstein of the firm A. Jacobs & Co. of Denver to see that Edwin is not in want. The railroads are constantly bringing new settlers; a large majority are American Gentlemen, men of wits who expect to make money with brain work. States that producers – farmers, agriculturists, tillers of the soil – are needed, not consumers. [filed 1870 Aug-Dec], 1870 Nov 30

Item — Box: 4, 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.