From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. Parker in Jackson, Mississippi to United States Senator Blanche K. Bruce, detailing voter fraud and intimidation by Democrats in Amite County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Isaac Jones to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, telling Ames that Jones was forced to sign the Columbus, Mississippi, election returns by threat of violence.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. Z. George to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, relaying information that the registrar of Port Gibson, Mississippi, threatened a man named Smith.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John A. Hall to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames with a list of New Jersey state officers. Letter also asks for list of state legislators' addresses.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. C. Bartlett, a stenographer in Washington, District of Columbia, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting a new copy of the affidavit of Register Walton to the Congressional investigating committee.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Newspaper clipping listing Mississippi's state executive and judiciary officers for the year 1859. Included are salaries, terms of office, information on elections, terms of courts, and the times and places that courts are held. (On the obverse, the printed year 1859 is crossed out in two places and the year 1868 notated in pencil on the side).
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Thomas Shackleford, Elza Jeffords, and Ephraim G. Peyton, judges of the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals, approving the "Mississippi Report."