From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Erving Cowan in Bay St. Louis to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, telling Governor Ames that Mr. Cowan applied for an inspectorship in the customs house.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sarah Heiderhoff at Brookhaven, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that Sharkey appoint her husband, F. Heiderhoff, as a lighthouse keeper on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Biloxi, Mississippi, from Mrs. M. J. Reynolds, keeper of the Biloxi Lighthouse, concerning oil taken from the structure.