From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. S. Pattison in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a plan to fortify the islands off the coast of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Resolution adopted by the city council of Baltimore, Maryland, concerning establishing steam service to Europe.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. W. Marshall to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus regarding the annual report of swamp lands in Choctaw County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. M. Laurin, President of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company, to Mississippi Governor John. J. Pettus reporting that the route of the railroad had been surveyed.