Copy of typed letter of Walter H. Darby, County Bridge West, Missoula, Mont., to Capt. Joseph Boyce, St. Louis, Mo. States he has written to his sister Mary H. Darby to deliver to Boyce the first act of Governor McNair as governor of Missouri as state issuing a military commission to his father, and the sword presented to his father by Meriwether Lewis. Asks Boyce to present them to the Historical Society in the name of Walter H. Darby, Missoula, Montana, Miss Mary H. Darby, and Mrs. Julia Darby Taylor, of St. Louis. Darby will be 76 soon and feels fine. Discusses other items sent and to be sent to Boyce., 1913 Sept 30

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7

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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.