Letter signed M.J. Carlin, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Jno. F. Darby [John F. Darby]. She is living in the house she was born in, the same house in which Gen.. Washington lived. She has been finishing Mrs. Bennett’s eldest daughter’s education for two years. It costs her $100 a month; they have not sent her a cent. She does not own an inch of ground; her 8 houses are all gone. That bad man O.J. Baker destroyed or took the note her husband gave him for her. [filed in 1881 Mar-May 11], 1881 Mar 20

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.