From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Wyoming Governor John M. Thayer, containing a proclamation that 25 November, 1875, will be Thanksgiving in the territory of Wyoming.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. M. Eckford and W. H. H. Tison to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, in opposition to Senate Bill 192 to change the boundary of Union County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from the citizens of Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames to leave the murder case of Morgan and Hilliard to the courts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Josiah Atkinson in Winston County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his business be waived. Atkinson states that he has a "considerable" family to support, and has previously lost almost everything he owned to a house fire, and was kept from working manual labor because of a fractured leg.