From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. B. Bacon at New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking Sharkey to send important news and proclamations to the newspaper of Picayune, Mississippi, of which he is an editor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. O. Edwards and E. Whaley at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a scheme to trade cotton for salt in New Orleans, Louisiana.