From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, giving notice of the Senate's confirmation of several nominees to the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. The Tenth Annual Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum by Superintendent Robert Kells.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from H. Hobbs and the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking for the contingency fund to be used to purchase supplies for the institution.