Correspondence and records of the Bank of the State of Mississippi, which was chartered on Dec. 23, 1809, as the Bank of the Mississippi; which was rechartered on Feb. 4, 1818, as the Bank of the State of Mississippi; and which was authorized on Dec. 19, 1831, to close its affairs and go out of business. The bank was located in Natchez and had offices in Port Gibson, Vicksburg and Woodville.

The collection is arranged in four files as follows:

  • Miscellaneous Correspondence File, Nov. 8, 1810–Nov. 4, 1836
  • Letters to Gabriel Tichenor File, June 22, 1811–December 21, 1833
  • Papers File, Jan. 2, 1811–Jan. 25, 1844
  • Stock Certificate File, June 1, 1811–May 7, 1828

The Miscellaneous Correspondence File, which contains 1,360 items in 93 folders, is divided into the following sections:

  • Letters to Jefferson Beaumont, Mar. 4, 1829–Nov. 4, 1836, 222 items
  • Letters to John Boynton, July 30, 1819–Dec. 4, 1821, 27 items
  • Letters to James Duncan, May 10–Nov. 27, 1827, 125 items
  • Letters to Stephen Duncan, Jan. 5, 1825–Mar. 28, 1834, 168 items
  • Letters to Thomas McDannold, Feb. 9, 1830–May 12, 1832, 336 items
  • Miscellaneous letters, Nov. 8, 1810–Oct. 4, 1833, 66 items
  • Letters to Henry Postlethwaite, Oct. 12, 1816–Oct. 3, 1821, 64 items
  • Letters to Samuel Postlethwaite, Aug. 19, 1811–Dec. 3, 1827, 63 items
  • Letters to the President and Directors, Oct. 11, 1811–Dec. 7, 1833, 246 items
  • Letters by Gabriel Tichenor, June 10, 1811–July 11, 1831, 25 items
  • Letters to James C. Wilkins, Dec. 31, 1818–Mar. 25, 1830, 18 items

The Letters to Gabriel Tichenor File contains 5,271 items filed alphabetically in 382 folders. The Papers File, which is composed of notes, checks, bills of exchange, reports, invoices, statements, balance sheets, correspondence, orders, and other legal and financial papers, contains 30,700 items filed chronologically in 1,388 folders.

The Stock Certificate File contains 926 items filed numerically in 48 folders.

The correspondence and papers are distributed by dates as follows:

  • undated - 532 items
  • 1810 - 3 items
  • 1811 - 193 items
  • 1812 - 433 items
  • 1813 - 474 items
  • 1814 - 354 items
  • 1815 - 431 items
  • 1816 - 414 items
  • 1817 - 845 items
  • 1818 - 1,854 items
  • 1819 - 2,406 items
  • 1820 - 1,693 items
  • 1821 - 1,812 items
  • 1822 - 2,040 items
  • 1823 - 1,532 items
  • 1824 - 2,016 items
  • 1825 - 2,359 items
  • 1826 - 2,451 items
  • 1827 - 2,709 items
  • 1828 - 2,484 items
  • 1829 - 3,616 items
  • 1830 - 3,194 items
  • 1831 - 2,430 items
  • 1832 - 1,173 items
  • 1833 - 621 items
  • 1834 - 155 items
  • 1835 - 23 items
  • 1836 - 1 item
  • 1837 - 2 items
  • 1838 - 3 items
  • 1843 - 1 item
  • 1844 - 3 items