From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from the firm of Burnham and Bartlett in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, offering their services as shorthand writers to cover the state Constitutional Convention.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from O. Y. Neily at Scooba, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending W. P. Keesee as collector of the Confederate tax.