From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Hunt asking help for Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, widow of a Confederate soldier, who is sick and in destitute circumstances.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, the general salt agent for Mississippi, to B. M. Woolsey, salt commissioner for Alabama, concerning the mining of salt in Alabama for the people of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. Manahan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, disputing previous reason given for Manahan's removal as postmaster.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Report from county treasurer M. M. Fortinberry to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing the financial statement of Lawrence County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from S. Newson Jr. in Hernando, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the finances of DeSoto County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. F. H. Claiborne to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames to intervene in the trial concerning a duel in Hancock County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. D. Penn to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting assistance for the intolerable conditions for African American Mississippians near Aberdeen, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. W. Robinson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a statement of the indebtedness of Tippah County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Copy of a proclamation by Nebraska Governor Robert W. Furnas in Lincoln, Mississippi, declaring Thanksgiving on November 26.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Brookhaven, Mississippi and Lincoln County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of Barbary Johnson, convicted of assault and battery. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Lamar and Mayes in Oxford, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of Ned Spearman, convicted of malicious mischief.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. M. Harris to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting the remission of forfeiture in the case of twenty-three African American men in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Clarke County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for pardon of Isam Cooley and Alfred Hauzer, convicted of trespassing on railroad property.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. M. Harris in Ashland, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting the remittance of forfeiture against twenty-three bondsmen of Paul Eckford.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from L. W. S. E. Franklin in Meridian, Mississippi to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, asking for protection from the Ku Klux Klan in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Former Mississippi Speaker of the House John R. Lynch and others in Natchez, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting aid for overflow victims in the Dead Man's Bend area.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Colfax County, Mississippi, now Clay County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Silas Murrah, who was convicted of unlawfully working an animal.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. M. Jayne Jr. in Brandon, Mississippi to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting that a reward and warrant be issued for the capture of an escaped convict.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting rations distributed in Yazoo County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. H. Pierce to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting rations for sufferers along the Tombigbee River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis for supplies for the women of Issaquena County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Allen P. Huggins to S. Colfax, inviting former Vice President Schuyler Colfax to an event to discuss immigration in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting receipt and distribution of overflow rations for Washington County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Copiah County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of Emanuel Selman, convicted of attempted rape. Endorsements and pardon included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John N. Shields to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a report on rations distributed in the area of Greenville, Mississippi. The report is not included.