Speech of Willis S. Williams titled “Great Speech of a Know Nothing delivered at Hillsboro Missouri, during the late term of the Circuit Court.” Persons mentioned include Mr. Trustin Polk, Captain Stevenson, Samuel Caruthers, Tom Allen, William Russell, Fillmore, and Donaldson. Places mentioned include Big River and St. Louis., No date

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 8

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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.