From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Fred Parsons and several others to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of Alexander Smith, convicted of rape. Includes endorsement by the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, William Noonan.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William B. Avery, containing a list of chancellors who referred cases to the Mississippi Supreme Court and number of cases from each.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from F. A. Clover to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing a report on an investigation of improperly withheld tax.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William B. Avery to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that men from another county had tried to register to vote in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, leading to an angry mob rising and the Sheriff raising 100 men to disperse it.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William B. Avery in Charleston, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, adding details to a letter sent by William Alcorn on September 15, and informing Ames that feelings are worse than they were in 1869.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document, containing a copy of contract for prisoner labor for O. C. French and Charles S. Jobes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William B. Avery to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting more counties added to his list as state agent.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Copy of contract in Hinds County, Mississippi for prisoner labor for O. C. French and Charles S. Jobes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. B. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, resigning as a member of the Mississippi Legislature. (Includes protest of other representatives)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Newspaper, containing a clipping from the Daily Mississippi Pilot, April 10, 1874.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from G. A. Nicholetts, chancery clerk of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, reporting the resignation of Greek P. Rice and Wm. B. Avery from their positions as justices of the peace, and suggesting E. A. Tatum and J. A. Ross as their replacements. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Nicholetts's letter.