From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Proclamation from James English, the Governor of Connecticut, appointing Friday April 7, 1871, to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.

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 Pettus Collection. Letter from Eli Whitney in Whitneyville, Connecticut, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the purchase of Whitney arms by the state of Mississippi.