Correspondence received by Robert Lowry (1830–1910), lawyer, brigadier general in the Confederate army and governor of Mississippi, 1882–1890. This collection does not include any correspondence received by Lowry during his administrations. Included in the collection are letters from Jefferson Davis, Varina Davis, J. F. H. Claiborne, J. L. Alcorn, Tim E. Cooper, E. C. Walthall, Charles B. Galloway, and B. G. Humphreys.