From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from D. B. Seal in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that the suspects wanted for dueling escaped before their requisitions could be delivered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from D. B. Seal to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting a requisition for duellists in New Orleans, Louisiana, who failed to show in court.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, for pardon of Rody Jackson, convicted of "threats." Pardon included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis to the Sheriff of Hinds County, Mississippi, containing the remittance of the forfeiture against D. W. Jones and C. S. Bill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from G. C. Chandler to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Governor Ames that indictments against Rhett and Phillips for dueling are being sent to him. Chandler also comments on loopholes in the state's anti-dueling law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon for Joseph M. Wilson, who was convicted of forgery. Recommendation against pardon from the District Attorney is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending Dr. S. W. Hamilton as the physician of the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from P. B. Starke, Thos. W. Stinger, and T. J. Mitchell, members of a committee appointed to assess the affairs of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing the results of the committee's investigation into the condition of the penitentiary - including plantations leased by the penitentiary where some convicted persons, mostly African Americans, are made to perform labor - and its inmates. There are several pages of information concerning some inmates needing medical attention, some inmates whom the committee believed were improperly convicted, and recommended pardons or commutations of sentences. Appended are additional "special reports" concerning particular cases and persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. Stanley to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn of the assault on Representative Coggeshall, who had been approached by three men from Oakland, Mississippi, and subsequently shot. Stanley also reports that the assailants had been allowed by a justice of the peace to escape. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Stanley's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mrs. C. Lockenwitz to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that she had not been paid for her services as the matron of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum in Vicksburg, Mississippi, for the months of December 1869 through April 1870. Mrs. Lockenwitz asks for her claim to be paid. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Lockenwitz's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from Doctor George S. C. Hussey, a surgeon at the state hospital at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, giving a status report on the condition of the Natchez State Hospital.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning county sheriffs who are in default on the collection of taxes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Lafayette County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that Stephen D. Hunter of the 19th Mississippi Infantry be exempted from military duty to take his post as county tax assessor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert Kells, superintendent of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his efforts to obtain supplies from the United States Army in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John L. T. Snead at Lodi, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting that Clark aid Henry S. Farmer by placing him on light duty with the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from S. J. Terry, Assistant Surgeon of Perrin's regiment of Mississippi Cavalry at Mount Milling, South Carolina, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking for an exemption from military service because of poor health.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from T. G. Brooking at Boonville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, complaining about local citizens taking their cotton to Tennessee and trading it to the United States Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. H. Dalton at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, seeking an appointment in the Mississippi state militia as a surgeon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi State Geologist E. W. Hilgard at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the work of the state geological survey.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from D. A. Kinchloe, chief surgeon of Confederate Major General James P. Anderson's division hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the organization of aid societies.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from E. M. Blackburn, a member of the Mississippi Relief Association at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting aid for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Atlanta, Georgia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Charles D. Fontaine at Pontotoc, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the resignation of his brother-in-law, Doctor P. B. Dandridge of McGuirk's regiment of the Mississippi cavalry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from G. L. Blythe at Hernando, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark of his progress in raising a regiment of cavalry for state service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to W. C. Watson, giving his agent his thoughts on cotton and wool cards, use of state troops, foreigners in the military, impressed enslaved persons, military supplies, and soldiers fit for service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the legality of the conscription laws.