From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from Melton Brown, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, to A. Murdock, describing allegedly violent excesses by members of Company K, 52nd United States Colored Troops, on civilians on a train at Lauderdale, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from B. F. Coker to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking that any forthcoming warrant for his arrest from Alabama for reclaiming a yoke of oxen not be granted until the matter is investigated. Enclosed is a letter from Coker's acquaintances Y. R. Dansby and Jarvis Elliott to Ames also asking that no warrant be granted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from a patient in the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting retention of Doctor Kells as superintendent on behalf of the patients.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William A. Bouton at Greenville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the case of Ben Jones, an African-American man convicted of larceny. Bouton alleges that Jones was not of sound mind and was tricked into stealing cotton by another man. Bouton asks Ames for executive decision and clemency on the case.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent W. H. Peavie of the Metropolitan Police at Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the arrest of Samuel Sevier for the alleged murder of James G. Simpkins.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from O. H. Crandall at Jackson, Mississippi, to George Sparks, transmitting a requisition on the Governor of Alabama, William Hugh Smith, for one Henry Coburn, alleged murderer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from N. G. Gill at Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending Henry M. Paine as delegate to the Commercial Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 12, 1869.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to O. H. Crandall, instructing Crandall to respond to Charles J. Rosenberg.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John M. Chilton at Montgomery, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting an appointment as commissioner of deeds for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James Bell to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, soliciting renewal of appointment as a commissioner of deeds for the state of Mississippi in Boston, Massachusetts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from I. M. Thompson at Iuka, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting that the title of revised code be edited.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Henry C. Banks at New York City, New York, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, soliciting renewal of appointment as commissioner of deeds.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Brevet Brigadier General John C. Smith to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a budget submission for the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum for October through December 1869.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Fred Koones at Washington, District of Columbia, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, inquiring if Koones' appointment as Commissioner had expired.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Doctor J. E. Carpenter, M. D., a probate court judge at Charleston, Mississippi, to Brevet Brigadier General Ebenezer Swift, offering services under contract as an assistant surgeon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Deputy J. E. Clark to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the escaped African-American man named Neverson Brown, who was convicted of larceny.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles J. Rosenberg, traveling agent for the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steam Ship Company at Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding European immigration to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Extradition orders from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to Alabama Governor William H. Smith, certified by Mississippi Secretary of State Henry Musgrove, empowering George Sparks to take Henry Coburn into custody for the alleged murder of Washington Sparks. Enclosed is a report from District Attorney John A. Blair, certified by court clerk John McAmis, stating that the grand jury of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, found Coburn guilty. Also enclosed is a letter from District Attorney Austin Pollard asking that Mississippi Governor Ames send a requisition to Alabama Governor Smith to extradite Coburn.