Letter signed Walter H. Darby, Missoula, Montana, to Secretary, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis Mo. As eldest and last living son of John F. Darby, now 74, sends a lot of original autographs of old time citizens of St, Louis; also his father’s gold pen that he used in Congress in 1853. The pen is the last relic of his vast estate of 56,000 acres in Missouri, stolen at the close of the Civil War by Knox and Tiffany. Refers to Darby’s bankruptcy. [filed in Miscellaneous], 1911 June 2

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.