Letter signed John F. Darby, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Captain Martin Quigley, Port Huron. Regarding salvaging of wrecks. Darby had supposed Quigley was at Port Huron at work on his wreck. The time has actually arrived when Quigley ought to be on the ground and actively engaged in their Atlantic enterprise. This procrastination and delay may prove fatal to the most valuable venture Quigley perhaps ever had committed to him. [filed in 1876 May-Dec], 1876 May 12

Item — Box: 4, Folder: 11

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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.