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 Sharkey Collection. Letter from C. Yost to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the the tax on his business be remitted. At the bottom of the first page, Yost's request is endorsed by probate court Judge Stephen A. Brown and Sheriff E. C. Eggleston of Lowndes County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Sixth annual report of the superintendent and physician of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.