Digital Collections of Primary Sources

Lindsley, John Berrien. On Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation. Nashville, Tenn.: Printed for the Robertson association, 1874. Making of America. Available from: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AEV9544.

Primary Sources: Archival Collections

Tennessee State Library & Archives [http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/tslahome.htm]
See Appendix D in Nicole Hahn Rafter's Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985) for a brief overview of the sources that she used at the TSLA.

Primary Sources: Microform Collections

Letters received by the Attorney General, 1809-1870. Southern Law and Order. Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1998. 6 microfilm reels.
Online overiew: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aj/LettersReceivedAttorneyGeneral.htm.