Letter signed John F. Darby, 222 Pine Street, St. Louis, to Genl. W.T. Sherman of the United States Army, Washington City. Darby recently saw in a newspaper that Col. Audenreid, Sherman’s aide-de-camp, is collecting portraits of all commanding officers of the Army, but lacks one of Gen. James Wilkinson. Darby’s wife’s father-in-law was a nephew of Gen. Wilkinson, and in her collection is a miniature engraving of Gen. Wilkinson. Darby will have it photographed if Col. Audenried will pay the expense. [filed in 1878], 1878 Aug 8

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.