From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Catalog entitled "Catalogue of the Library of the State of Mississippi" listing the holdings of the Mississippi State Library as of January 1865. The catalog contains alphabetized lists of legal reports from various states, elementary and miscellaneous law texts, legal codes, governmental documents from the United States and the individual states, and historical and literary texts. (This document is the enclosed catalog mentioned in mdah_768-950-05-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from B. F. Moore Jr., a former slaveholder, at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, refusing to take the amnesty oath. Moore states that he has always been a loyal Unionist who never willingly aided the Confederacy. He complains about the emancipation of enslaved persons, claiming that said persons are his "property" and that the government cannot take them from a loyal citizen without financial compensation. Moore believes that taking the amnesty oath would amount to admitting to treason and thus to waiving his claims for financial compensation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Cowdan in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering suggestions on what to do if Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Chancellor F. A. P. Barnard asking for leave from the University of Mississippi to join a astronomical expedition to Labrador, Canada.