From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mrs. William Hoover to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a resolution by the maternal association of Summit, Mississippi, thanking Ames for his support of temperance.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William H. Garland to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending Reverend William Hoover for Superintendent of Pike County, Mississippi, schools with a newspaper article attached.