From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from R. R. Chilton to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting pardon for Chilton for selling spirituous liquors.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting receipt and distribution of overflow rations for Washington County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis for the pardon of Lem Hicks who was convicted of murder. Pardon granted on July 7.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James S. Johnston in Jefferson County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the applications for tax exemption of churches.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. P. Scott to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for twenty rations to be shipped to Halls Landing, Mississippi.
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.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James Hutchins to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for letter of recommendation for Hutchins' trip to Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Ike Schooler, who was convicted of burglary. Pardon included.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Alfred Henry to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, inviting Governor Ames to the Tribulation Baptist Church in Carthage, Mississippi. Response included.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. C. Ford to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking the Governor to grant a charter to South Western Presbyterian University (Rhodes College) so that it will relocate to Meridian, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter, accompanying requisition for the arrest and return of George Crutcher to Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Newspaper, containing a clipping from the Daily Mississippi Pilot, April 10, 1874.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Finis H. Little to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, encouraging Ames to reappoint Reverend Theodore Whitfield as the superintendent of the blind institute.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Memo from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to Senator Packer, a memo asking for Packer's recommendations for the trustee board of the blind asylum.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to the United States Postmaster General, recommending Turner H. Lane as the Postmaster of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several citizens of Hinds County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for executive clemency for Aleck Fleming, who was convicted of grand larceny. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of the petition.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Mitchell Easley, who was convicted of murder in April 1873.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Chancellor of University of Mississippi John N. Waddel to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking the Governor to support future bills related to estates and taxes of Christian organizations.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. Hill to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending Reverend Doctor B. H. Gotthelf for a position as a trustee of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, noting the Senate's confirmation of several county officers from June 2, 1870.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. W. Campbell to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking for an appointment for himself in order to support his family.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from R. A. Hill writing to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn on behalf of Rev. D. McGlachlan who is asking for state authorities to address the "outrages" against him by the Ku Klux.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, writing to recommend the Rev. I. W. Hill to the Board of Free School Directors of Choctaw County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from New York and Hartford Publishing Co. to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting a written sketch of the Governor's life to be included in an upcoming publication concerning the life of Democrats in America.
