From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Publication titled Salt from the Onondaga Salt Company to the editor of the New York World.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. B. Colegrove at Saint Louis, Missouri, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for an appointment to a government job.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Alexander M. Clayton in Marshall County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking for Governor Sharkey's aid in receiving a pardon from President Andrew Johnson.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Handlon, a prisoner at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, describing the events leading to his incarceration for manslaughter and request for clemency.