From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Barrows Samples, attorney at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a request for pardon from prisoner Thomas Jenkins, convicted of assault with intent to kill by a military commission in 1868.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Z. A. Philips of the Mississippi State Penitentiary to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, advising the governor of recent communication received from Superintendent Robert Kells of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum concerning the humanitarian pardon of three sick convicts. Enclosed is another letter from Philips certifying the good conduct of prisoner Thomas Jenkins. (Letter from Kells to Philips is document mdah_784-968-11-09).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Thomas Hanby at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, advising the governor of the murder in Calhoun County, Mississippi, of Solomon Weeks allegedly by Hanby's nephew George Hanby, requesting that he be brought to justice.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Z. A. Philips of the Mississippi State Penitentiary to O. H. Crandall, recommending a pardon for William Brennan.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Z. A. Philips of the Mississippi State Penitentiary to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, advising of the death of pardoned convict Lewis McCarty at Peris Plantation on the night of January 19, 1870, and enclosing the certificate of death from the attending physician.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Robert Kells of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum to Superintendent Z. A. Philips of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, detailing the ailments of three convicts in the state penitentiary and appeals for their release on humanitarian grounds. (Letter is the document from Kells to Philips mentioned in document mdah_784-968-11-08).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff J. P. Matthews of Copiah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing a physical description of William Johnson, sought for the alleged murder of Frank Cheeves in the town of Beauregard, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. Parker of Amite County, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, containing a warrant for the arrests of John C. Sharkey and F. R. Morgan for the alleged murder of Matthew Cox.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. Parker of Amite County, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, advising of the highway robbery and murder of Matthew Cox allegedly by Rick Sharkey and F. R. Morgan, both of whom escaped to Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mayor H. B. Gegan of West Point, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, advising the governor of the desired arrest of Mr. Fred Brewer for "conduct outrageous in character."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mayor and Justice of the Peace William Price of Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing the depositions against Judge E. Gifford and explaining that said depositions were brought on by Gifford's attempts to avoid the consequences of the allegations detailed therein. Ames referred the letter to his private secretary, O. H. Crandall. (Enclosed depositions are mdah_784-968-11-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. H. Pierce at Panola, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, advising of the jail break with outside assistance of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, prisoners C. E. Mooney and W. J. Avant. Pierce asks that a reward of $1,000 be offered for the capture of Mooney, who is accused of murder.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. C. Hammack at DeKalb, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, advising the governor of the murder of E. Webb, allegedly by P. W. Felton who is still at large and is suspected of fleeing to Texas. Hammack provides a brief physical description of Felton.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. H. Winter and C. E. Murphy at Pittsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the murder of Solomon Weeks.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock at Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, transmitting a copy of Georgia's joint resolution ratifying the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The copy is certified by Georgia Secretary of State David G. Cotting.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Depositions of Harriet Cook, L. Perkins, and Melinda Townsend of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, witnessed by C. C. Johnston and sworn before Mayor and Justice of the Peace William Price, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, attesting to the drunkenness of a Judge E. Gifford and his alleged "proposals to lie with" Melinda Townsend. (Depositions are enclosed documents mentioned in mdah_784-968-11-06).