Papers of John Marshall Stone (April 30, 1830–March 26, 1900) who served as Mississippi state senator, governor (March 29,1876–Jan. 9, 1882; Jan. 13, 1890–Jan. 20, 1896), railroad commissioner, and president of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. These papers pertain to political affairs; to the history of the Second Mississippi Infantry Regiment, CSA, which Stone commanded; and to the controversy with the United States Treasury Department over the issue of special warrants under the Mississippi law of February 10, 1894.

The collection contains one letter from William Cullen Bryant (Feb. 5, 1877), two from Frank Burkitt (May 18, 1881, and July 21, 1892), two from Frank A. Critz (May 6 and 27, 1888), seven from Mrs. Jefferson Davis (June 20, 1890–Dec. 25, 1891), three from Joseph R. Davis (March 7, 1878–March 21, 1894), one from Varina Anne Davis (May 15, 1891), one from Thomas S. Gathright (Jan. 30, 1878), nine from James Z. George (July 19–Aug. 4, 1891), one from Joseph Holt (Dec. 26, 1877), two from Margaret H. Davis Hayes (April 28 and May 29, 1891), two from Thomas G. Jones (Sept. 10 and 19, 1894), seven from L. Q. C. Lamar (July 5, 1872–April 9, 1891), two from J. S. McNeily (Oct. 18 and Dec. 24, 1894), one from John J. Pettus (Nov. 10, 1862), one from W. W. Stone (July 25, 1894), and one from E. C. Walthall (April 5, 1876).

Twenty-seven items are letters or documents by John M. Stone (Oct. 14, 1861–May 17, 1894). The last 18 letters of the collection are addressed to Mrs. John M. Stone, and the first two of these letters (Dec. 23, 1902, and Jan. 15, 1903) are from Morris W. Sasure, Fairfield, Ohio, in regard to the return of Stone's sword. The volume is a notebook (9 x 21 cm., pp. 22) kept by Stone.

The papers are distributed by dates as follows:

• Undated, 15 pieces
• 1861–1865, 7 pieces
• 1872–1879, 32 pieces
• 1881–1889, 6 pieces
• 1890–1899, 77 pieces
• 1901–1926, 19 pieces