From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Tax report for Noxubee County, Mississippi, listing taxes and government expenditures for an unspecified period.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several citizens of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor to Adelbert Ames, asking for clemency for Sam Smith, convicted of grand larceny in 1873. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of the petition.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List from M. B. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing an estimate of the number of rations to be sent to Bolivar County, Mississippi, each week. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of the document.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John Stevenson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, urging Ames to support a temperance bill adopted by citizens of Baldwyn, Mississippi. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of Stevenson's letter.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter addressed "to the Editor of the Southron" criticizing the recipient for censuring Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames over his decision to grant a pardon. The letter is signed from "Veritas."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document reading "Geo. W. Chambless, Searcy, White Cty Ark". Possibly the last page of a longer document.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List of names with the notations "Trustees" and "Lunatic Asylum". This document is likely a list of the trustees of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for pardon for A. P. Baird, who was convicted of grand larceny. Petition includes a recommendation from Judge Brown.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Albert Young, an incarcerated person convicted of murder in March 1871, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, seeking a pardon for himself. On the reverse, Ames pencils a short note referring Young's petition to "Supt. Noonan".
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List of witnesses for the committee of investigation. Several names are struck out.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to C. W. Sullivan, requesting that Sullivan testify before the investigative committee to rebut the testimony of Colonel Wiles.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. A list of trustees of Alcorn University. Included is a note from I. N. Osborn, Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of the document.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. A list of officers of Sumner County, Mississippi (currently Webster County, Mississippi).
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several pupils of the Mississippi Asylum for the Blind to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting that Ames not remove Professor Whitfield as the superintendent of the Asylum. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of the petition.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending J. D. Barton for chancellor or circuit judge of Lee County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending J. D. Barton for chancellor of the eighth district.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Robert Gleed to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon who was indicted but not convicted due to an atercation he had with an African American man. Petition includes a recommendation.
