From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. R. Smith to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing a report on investigation into improper withholding of funds.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Norris in Baltimore, Maryland to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing the proposed scales law, and asking Ames to address it with Mississippi's representatives.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. H. Whipple in Jackson, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, tending his resignation as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Richard F. Harrison to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting that he be appointed as a representative to an unspecified convention in St. Louis, Missouri. (Includes J. Z. George's rejection of Harrison's appointment.)
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. H. Gibbs to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing report of debts and credits of Noxubee County, Mississippi, for 1874. Report not included.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from G. C. Smith to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, resigning as Senator for District 28.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from G. C. Smith to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, resigning as State Senator of the 28th District.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. R. Smith to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking the status of a previous petition.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. A. Johnston to the Secretary of Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting a remission of forfeiture against C. A. Johnston of $500.00.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Copy of a contract for leasing convicts to Charles S. Jobes in Jackson, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. E. Lippincott in Springfield, Illinois to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a statement of the assets and liabilities of the state of Illinois.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George B. Clark in Jefferson, Missouri to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, summarizing the assessed value of real and personal property in the state in 1873.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document from Adjutant General of Mississippi A. G. Packer to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing a check for thirty dollars for cutting and piling wood.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. Jeffrey Stevens to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting Governor Ames autograph.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to F. C. Harris, written to Harris to gauge the potential interest of Frederick Douglass in becoming the President of Alcorn University.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Treasurer of Lowndes County, Mississippi A. Stewart to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing financial statement of Lowndes County.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi Secretary of State James Hill to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, thanking Ames for appointing Hill to the relief committee, but suggesting T. W. Cardozo instead.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Blanche Kelso Bruce to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending M. B. Sullivan for the relief committee.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document containing a contract between the Mississippi State Penitentiary and the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road to supply inmates for labor.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi State Treasurer M. L. Holland, listing five names as sureties on Holland's bond.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Extradition Request from Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, for William Gilmer wanted for obtaining goods under false pretenses.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from U. B. Tabor to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, complaining that he is having a hard time with his manufacturing business due to a prohibition of the sale of liquor, although the Board of Supervisors have issued a license to another company to sell liquor for medical purposes, he has even had to close down his mill.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's Private Secretary H. F. Hewson, stating that the Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn is travelling although delayed, he asks that they acknowledge his agent at Jonestown, Coahoma County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Lemmon, Joyner, and Gale to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's Private Secretary H. F. Hewson, informing him that his request for the sum of $1,000 had been received and that the sum had been credited to the Governor for his visit to Memphis, Tennessee.
