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 Sharkey Collection. Letter from Eugene W. Hilgard, the state geologist of Mississippi, at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the publication of his report on the geology of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from State Geologist Eugene W. Hilgard at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, giving a summary of his actions during the war.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from L. A. Wailes at Terry, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, offering to sell the geology collection of his father, Benjamin L. C. Wailes, to the University of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Ozias Osburn Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the efforts of a Mr. Jacobs to extract salt from the dirt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, the State Geologist, concerning payment of his salary.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Eugene W. Hilgard to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting the Governor to issue a warrant on the state treasury for $500, to pay Hilgard's salary as state geologist.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. C. Boynton in Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the payment of salaries to the staff at the University of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi State Geologist Eugene W. Hilgard to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending a Dr. Riddell for a job with the Mississippi Geological Survey.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. C. Boynton in Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a payment due the Mississippi State Geologist.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. C. Boynton in Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus enclosing order from the Mississippi State Geologist for $500.00.

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 Pettus Collection. Account of expenditures from Mississippi State Geologist Eugene W. Hilgard listings the expenditures of the Mississippi State Geological Survey from August 16, 1860, to March 15, 1861.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Reports "A" and "C" from the Mississippi State Geologist giving progress and results of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Receipt from the State of Mississippi to Mississippi State Geologist George Little, for $800.00 in expenses of the Geological Survey, October 20th, 1868, to March 20th, 1869 which was approved by the legislature on February 10, 1860.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi State Geologist George Little at Oxford, Mississippi, to Captain D. C. Kearns, concerning the expenses of the Mississippi State Geological Survey.