From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, District of Columbia, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, recommending that E. W. Hilgard be allowed to continue leading the Mississippi State Geological Survey in addition to his duties as a professor upon the reopening of the University of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John S. Moore, a doctor at the Missouri Medical College in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending Doctor G. W. B. Maughs for a position at the University of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter written in French to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for information about Sharkey to be used in a biographical book of important persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Richard T. Archer in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, encouraging the state to look for salt on his land.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Maine Governor Israel Washburn Jr. to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus inclosing resolutions of the Maine Legislature regarding a uniform decimal system of weights, measures, and currencies.