Letter signed M. Carlin, 166 Duffield St., Brooklyn, to Jno. F. Darby [John F. Darby]. She has left New Orleans permanently and is settled in New York. Mrs. Bennett is there, telling everyone that Mrs. Carlin has sued her. Mrs. Carlin lost her property in New Orleans because Mrs. Bennett would not cooperate/give her money. Mrs. Bennett has been staying in a tenement house with low Irish but left there, looking like a beggar. Darby has always treated Mrs. Carlin with consideration and kept her husband from himself and her from more scandal. [filed in 1875 Aug-Dec], 1875 Nov 25

Item — Box: 4, 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.