Copy of letter signed John F. Darby, 222 Pine Street, St. Louis, Missouri, to Horace Barnes, 765 Sixth Avenue, New York. Would like to provide Barnes with papers and letters relating to the Central America, and to meet to discuss the matter. Realizes it is too late to undertake work this year. Meanwhile, work could be done on about a dozen vessels in the Mississippi, one of which is said to contain 600 kegs of silver coin of one thousand dollars each. [filed in 1876 May-Dec], 1876 Oct 4

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.