Letter signed Wm. E. Scott [William E. Scott], 220 5th Street, New York, N.Y., to John F. Darby, 222 Pine Street, St. Louis. Scott has been busy copying and mailing letters written by the secretary of the party he is with as a preface to the next presidential election. Please let him know how that case is coming along. [filed in 1879 Sept-Dec], 1879 Sept 19

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 2

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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.