From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, asking for the pardon of Peter and Rocco Misso, indicted for selling liquors to minors. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from R. R. Chilton to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting pardon for Chilton for selling spirituous liquors.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to General A. G. Packer, asking Packer to telegraph A. R. Howe about federal aid for overflow victims.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from R. B. Avery to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a dissertation on temperance.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from the members of the Mississippi Legislature to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending R. B. Stone for chancery judge of the ninth district.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several citizens of Lincoln County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames to intervene in the case against a man sentenced to three years of hard labor in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Receipt from the Pilot Publishing Company to Mississippi Superintendent of Education Thomas W. Cardozo, showing that Cardozo received 500 printed letter-wrappers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Franklin B. Hough to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, writing to request another copy of the seal of the state to be included in a presentation on the constitutions of every state. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Hough's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. B. Bridges to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing him that the persons who were captured by E. P. Bridges fit the description of Ringers and Applegate but were not them.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from A. R. Johnston to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking Alcorn to appoint him to superintend the printing and arranging of "the index."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Several tax receipts concerning Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, and a letter from D. H. Alcorn concerning a murder which took place on the Pettit and Cooper plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Thomas Hardee to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, discussing the proofing and printing of the new Mississippi maps.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from H. M. Porter to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's private secretary H. F. Hewson, asking Hewson to ask Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn if the State of Mississippi will need any bonds produced from the National Bank Note Company.

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, giving notice of the Senate's confirmation of nominees to the offices of District Attorney (12th and 7th Districts), Chancery Clerk of Coahoma County, Mississippi, and Public Printer respectively.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Kimball, Raymond and Company, state printers, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that the Mississippi Legislature was calling for the chapters of the revised code. The printers ask if the delivery should be brought to Alcorn or to Mississippi Secretary of State James D. Lynch. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Alcorn, giving an executive summary of Kimball, Raymond and Company's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from H. N. P., including an announcement for a dentist stating that this gentleman was still in the practice of dentistry. He writes on the reverse side that he had not yet published the announcement.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, giving updates about Abe Hucabee, the Mitchell murder case, submission of a pay warrant for the governor's signature, and also noting that Dr. Emanuel had furnished the Secret Service agency with 5 half-price fare passes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. Macdonough of the National Bank Note Company in New York to General T. W. B. Henson, asking for more information on items sent to them to be engraved and printed so that the company can give Henson an estimate of cost.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Incomplete letter from S. R. Jones and the trustees of a female boarding school at Preston, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking permission to trade cotton with the United States Army in Memphis, Tennessee. (Letter is damaged).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Receipt from F. LaBueve, representing J. T. Patterson and Co., to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark for a warrant from the Mississippi State Treasury for $1,725 to pay for printing bonds and an engraving plate.

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, giving his opinion on the legality of some printing contracts.

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 printing of laws and journals for the state of Mississippi.

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 compensation for the firm of Cooper and Kimball for printing the state journal.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Telegram from a Mr. Patridge at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, informing Sharkey that Colonel Ira Batterton, the state printer, was dead.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from George W. Harper, editor of the "Hinds County Gazette" at Raymond, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for a job appointment so that he can raise enough money to start up his newspaper again. Harper states that he has a large family to support, and has lost his property, the newspaper, and workers whom he formerly enslaved. To support his cause, Harper notes that he was a previous candidate for the Mississippi Secretary of State in 1860, in which he lost to Charles Albert Brougher by 2,000 state votes but had 149 more than Brougher in Raymond.