Letter signed M.A. Lysaght, Saint Joe, Mo., to Uncle [John F. Darby]. Sends New Year’s greetings to Darby and family upon entering the great centennial year. She has been ill for several weeks. They are losing money in business. The grasshoppers are making such havoc. Brother Henry’s house burned to the ground without insurance. A strange phenomenon supposed to be a meteor threw a most beautiful light all over the city and was seen for miles around, even in Kansas, followed by a roaring sound like thunder a day or two ago. [filed in 1875 Aug-Dec], 1875 Dec 31

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.