Letter signed T.J. Scott, Jefferson City, Missouri, to [John F.] Darby. Scott spent the winter in New Orleans selling horse medicines and doctoring them. In March he came north intending to go to Blackburn in Saline County. Blackburn offered work with horses. Scott went to Wellsville drunk and took a horse; he turned it loose to go back to the right place but was arrested and put in jail. Once in a while he sees sketches of racing in the Globe-Democrat. [filed in 1880 Jan-June], 1880 June 19

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3

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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.