From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James L. Herbert to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, against Senate Bill 219, "An Act to License Keepers of Tonsorial Saloons."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Sarah Garrett at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that she be pardoned for her crime of allowing enslaved persons to trade as freemen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James Graves, an African American man at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking to have the tax waived on his barbering business.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Sarah Garrett to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark asking that she be pardoned for her alleged crime of allowing enslaved people to trade as freemen.