9 boxes and 1 oversize folder. including Minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, Minutes of Executive Committee meetings, and Minutes of stockholders' meetings of NOJ&GN and CenMiss, and of incorporators of Y&MV and CA&N (Mar. 4,1882); Resignations and acceptances of officers and directors; Reports of committees, drafts of resolutions, letters concerning securities, etc.; Deeds of land, and letters about sale and purchase, with blueprints. Also includes statements of balance sheets and accounts with IC, 1890-1912, and indebtedness to IC, 1890; Report on Cairo Bridge bonds by trustees, 1890-1912; Sales of property and land in Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana, 1940's and 1950's; By-laws, with amendments, and sundry other papers. Some of the documents from 1877-1912 are detailed in the original Mohr guide to the Illinois Central Railroad Co. collections, and the text is reprinted here, with some post-1912 additions:

1877 - Letters: Claims and overcharges; NOJ&GN bonds, Oct.; Bill of complaint, decision, and appeal, NOJ&GN v. Mississippi College, Oct.1872-1877; Circular about MissCen bonds, Apr.13; Agreement by NOJ&GN and NOJ&N for surplus government property offered to Southern railroads, Aug.; Agreement with Cambria Iron Co., Nov.27; Sale of steel rails to NOJ&GN, June 5.

1878 - Circular on CenMiss bonds, Jan.5; Agreement concerning bonds of NOJ&GN and MissCen, Apr.; Acts of Miss. and Ky. approving consolidation of CenMiss and NOJ&N, Feb.27, with report on bill, bill, etc., Dec.

1879 - Agreement with Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Aug.20; Contract with Pullman Southern Car Co., Sept.19.

1880 - List of stockholders, Feb.16; Agreement with Southern Express Co., Apr.1; Agreement for sale of track to New Orleans Belt, Apr.5; List of insurable property, Sept.10; Vicksburg & Meridian agreement of reorganization, Dec.31; Contracts with Bethlehem Iron Co., Dec.1878, Dec.1879, Jan.-Aug.-Sept.1880; Act authorizing settlement by Miss., Mar.5; Letters considering expenditures for changing gauge, Nov.

1881 -Appeal of Roger Locomotive and Machine Works vs. Albert Kelly and L.D. Alexander et al., Feb.15; Purchase of steel rails, Jan.15; Contract with The West and East, Aug.1, and mortgage to Union Trust Co., New York, Sept. 1; Act ratifying consolidation of CenMiss with NOJ&N, Apr.7; Lease of National Park Bank, New York, May; Affidavits of securities of H.H. Hollister & Co., Dec., Jan.; Agreement with Western Union, Oct.1; Mortgage to L.V.F. Randolph and L.A. Catlin, Mar.15; Bill and report on settlement of accounts with railway companies, Feb. 10 (U.S. Senate); Lease to IC, June 13; Freight tariff.

1882 - Report on IC lease, by James Emott, Apr.6, with lease (Jun. 13) and letters; Letters of trustees, Apr.; By-laws, adopted Nov. 8, 1887, amended Mar. 17, 1880, Oct. 20, 1880, and Mar. 1, 1882.

1883 - IC letter to shareholders by W.K. Ackerman concerning reports on CStL&NO, by W.H. Osborn, J.C. Clarke and James Fentress, Jan.18; Act concerning bridges over Ohio River, Feb. 14; illustrated specimen bond coupons for Y&MV, CA&N, and MissCen & Tenn RR.

1887 - Act approving consolidation of CenMiss and NOJ&N, Mar.24, with memo of organization [n.d.]; Contract with IC and Tennessee Midland, Oct.3; Act organizing NOJ&N, Mar.23,1870; Contract with Union Bridge Co., Mar.23, May 4 with letter from James Fentress, Apr.8, and Act authorizing Cairo Bridge, Apr.1 and June 19,1886 with map and letters from G.S.Morison and E.L.Corthell, Mar.23, snd specifications; Amendment to the By-Laws, May 18.

1888 - Letter concerning Miss&Tenn sale, Dec.18; Agreement With Union Bridge Co., Sept.28.

1889 - Opinion of Stewart & Sheldon on bond issue, May 7, and destruction of records; Agreement with Union Bridge Co., May 27; Lease of Memphis Division to IC, Apr.4; Contract for construction of Ky. approach to Cairo Bridge, Mar.9; Mortgage for Miss&Tenn by E.T.H. Gibson and A.G. Hackstaff, Dec.1,1877; List of Miss&Tenn shareholders, Feb.15 and Mar.13; Statement of IC advances for Cairo Bridge to Dec.1. 1888, with letters; Amendment to the By-Laws, Apr. 3.

1890 - Ky. documents on Cairo Bridge, July; Report on Miss&Tenn stock, June 18; Receipt for bridge bonds, June 1; Mortgage for Cairo Bridge, Feb.12; Letters concerning contract between Miss&Tenn and Merchants Cotton Press and Storage Co., Jan.; Miss&Tenn inventory, Mar.31,1889; Reports of local treasurer, 1889-90; Lease to IC for Cairo Bridge approaches and for bridge. Feb.12.

1895- Deed to Canton Cotton Warehouse Co., Nov.12; Agreement with Postal Telegraph Cable Co., IC, CA&N and Y&MV, Nov. 20; Report of the Trustees re: the Cairo Bridge, Nov. 20.

1898 - Letters concerning purchase of Cecilia Branch from L&N, Feb.

1899 - Agreement for removal of New Orleans levee, Sept.11.

1901 - Agreement with L&N for purchase of Cecilia Branch, Dec. 16; announcement and newsclipping on the death of General Rufus Polk Neely, "member of the Board since the organization of the Company in 1877."

1902 - Deeds of The Hodgenville & Elizabethtown and The Kentucky Western, Oct.25; Contract with Memphis for taxes, July 31.

1903 - Agreement with Pearl River Lumber Co., May 20; Letters concerning expenditures by IC, Nov.4.

1905 - Amendment to the By-Laws, Nov. 15.

1912 - Letters concerning agreement with Evansville Railways, Jan. 24.

1916 - Materials regarding the loss of mortgage bonds, sunk aboard the USS "Arabic", May 31.

1928 - Amendment to the By-Laws, Nov. 27.

1936 - Amendment to the By-Laws, Apr. 26.