Letter signed Thos. Gray [Thomas Gray], San Francisco, Cal., to John F. Darby. Compliments Darby on his book. Gray lived in St. Louis from 1820-1850. Darby’s accounts of the Jesuits and the bishops are excellent. Suggests he should send a copy to Fr. Boshard, a Jesuit in San Francisco. He would help sell it among Missourians in California, Oregon, and Washington. In 1849, Col. Gantt and Gray were on the Committee. They turned the schools into hospitals and spread lime in the streets. Recalls how he and Darby first met. Darby assumed and paid a debt for which he was not liable. [filed in 1881 Jan-Feb], 1881 Jan 15

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4

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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.