From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Noonan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing a list of prisoners whose terms are set to expire in August 1874.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, enclosing a commutation of the sentence of John Eaton, who was convicted of selling diseased flesh.