Letter signed C.U. Forbes, Creve Coeur, to John F. Darby. Asks Darby to provide information for publication on the origin of the name Creve Coeur and the legend connected therewith together with the history of the first settlement at the Lake. The St. L.R.R. and Ice Co. have applied to Forbes to write up the story. [filed in 1879 Sept-Dec], 1879 Nov 28

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.