From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Catalog entitled "Catalogue of the Library of the State of Mississippi" listing the holdings of the Mississippi State Library as of January 1865. The catalog contains alphabetized lists of legal reports from various states, elementary and miscellaneous law texts, legal codes, governmental documents from the United States and the individual states, and historical and literary texts. (This document is the enclosed catalog mentioned in mdah_768-950-05-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from "Beaty" at Macon, Mississippi, to "Shill," requesting that he be suggested to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to become the head of the governor's Secret Service department. (The Beaty and Shill names seem to be some sort of nickname or code name for these men, as both names appear in quotation marks).