1880

• Mississippi, as a Province, Territory and State, with Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens. Vol I, by J.F.H. Claiborne (Power & Barksdale)

February 21: David Edgar Guyton born in Blue Mountain, Mississippi.

1881

Publications:

• The White Rose of Memphis, by William Clark Falkner (G. W. Dillingham).

October 11: Novelist, playwright, poet, and drama critic Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi.

1882

• Rapid Ramblings in Europe, by William Clark Falkner (J. B. Lippincott).
• The Little Brick Church, by William Clark Falkner (J. B. Lippincott).

1883

• Dialect Tales, stories by Sherwood Bonner (Harper & Brothers).
• The Tariff: Speech in the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1883, by L.Q.C. Lamar (United States Congress)

July 22: Sherwood Bonner dies of breast cancer in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

1884

• Suwanee River Tales, stories by Sherwood Bonner (Roberts Brothers).

May 17: J.F.H. Claiborne dies in Natchez, two months after his home burned to the ground, taking with it the manuscript of the second volume of his magnum opus, Mississippi As A Province, Territory, and State.

1885

• A Sketch of Harvey's Scouts, Formerly of Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee ... Being a Part of the Second Volume of Claiborne's History of Mississippi, by J.F.H. Claiborne

May 14: William Alexander Percy born in Greenville, Mississippi.

1886

1887

1888

• Oration on the Life, Character and Public Services of the Hon. John C. Calhoun: Delivered before the Ladies Calhoun Monument Association and the Public, at Charleston, South Carolina,, by L.Q.C. Lamar (Lucas, Richardson and Company).
• Poems, by Irwin Russell (Century).

1889

• Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians, by Reuben Davis (Houghton, Mifflin).

November 5: Soldier, statesman, railroad-builder and writer William Clark Falkner was shot and killed by a former business partner in Ripley, Mississippi.