Letter signed Julia S. Sherwood, 1219 Mo. Avenue, St. Louis, to J.F. Darby. She read Darby’s letter in regard to the old times of St. Louis. Was the Col. T. Smith he referred to related to Gov. Early of Georgia? Her mother told her of a Col. Thomas Smith who had a silver mine in the west, around 1820. On mourning stationery. [filed in 1879 Sept-Dec], 1879 Sept 27

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.