From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Ohio State Librarian Samuel George Harbaugh to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, thanking for the state reports from the Ohio commissioners of the Mississippi State Library.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. P. Barnett to D. S. Downing, dismissing Downing from his post as night watchman of the capital. Attached to this letter is another letter addressed to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn from W. H. Wasser, James Lynch, J. P. Lesseon and H. Musgrove, who recommended Downing for the position of night watchman and stand by his competence.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter of transmittal from Joseph T. Woodward on behalf of Maine Secretary of State Franklin M. Drew to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, for several items that the State of Maine sent to the State of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, reporting that the Senate has confirmed John D. Werles, Jr., as Mississippi State Librarian and Keeper of the Capitol, and Dallas Coffey as Chancellor II District.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Receipt from C. E. Hooker for papers of the Mississippi Attorney General's office, received of Mr. F. A. Whiting, librarian and keeper of the capitol.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of a letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Jackson, Mississippi, to United States Army Brigadier General E. D. Osband, informing Osband that the archives and property of the state had been turned over to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller and providing a list of property in the executive mansion turned over to Miller. Clark also states that other officers of the state will deliver the archives and property from their departments. This copy is transcribed by Miller, Osband's Assistant Adjutant General.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Report from Mississippi State Librarian F. A. Whiting at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark in Macon, Mississippi, on the condition of the capitol and enclosing a catalog of the holdings of the Mississippi State Library. (Enclosed catalog is mdah_768-950-05-06).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. P. Jordan, the state librarian of Maryland, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, informing Sharkey that a copy of the 1865 Maryland laws and House and Senate journals have been sent.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from George T. Swain at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for a requisition for books and stationery for the court of equity.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. W. Johns in Jackson, Mississippi, resigning as State "Keeper of the Capitol and Librarian."

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. Petition from Justices Ephraim G. Peyton and Elza Jeffords of the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals and Mississippi Attorney-General Jasper Myers, to MIssissippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting an additional $150 in funding for the Mississippi State Library.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from the New Jersey State Librarian C. Jesse Mulford at Trenton, New Jersey, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the transfer of documents to the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from New Jersey State Librarian C. Jesse Mulford to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, accompanying the transmittal of a copy of laws for 1868 and requesting receipt.