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. Letter from R. B. Avery to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, praising the Ames' stance on temperance.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Jackson, Mississippi, to O. H. Crandall, asking him to consider pardoning Lizzie Green, convicted by the Circuit Court of Adams County, Mississippi, for grand larceny.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Z. A. Philips of the Mississippi State Penitentiary to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the difficulties in incarcerating Susan Stokes, a female convict that is far into a pregnancy. Philips advises that he has no place to put Stokes "out of hearing of the male convicts" during labor.