Copy of letter signed John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri, to W.P. Gordon, Kansas City, Mo. Gordon has misconstrued previous communications from Darby and taken offense where none was intended. Darby did not ask for compensation for sharing information and interviews. Explains request for return of book of Sen. Bogy’s. [filed in 1878], 1878 May 20

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 1

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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.