From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. J. Stockard to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting an appointment to the office of circuit and chancery clerk of Colfax County, Mississippi. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Stockard's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. Stallings to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking that the request of H. J. Richard for the office Circuit Clerk of Colfax County, Mississippi, and giving his support to the request for such an appointment.