Letters from W A Conklin of the Department of Public Parks in New York, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an elephant at a circus in Philadelphia

Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum

Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Correspondence between Chipperfield's Circus and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transfer of European Bear Cubs from the Zoological Society of London to Chipperfield's Circus and Zoo

Correspondence between the Ministry of Food and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the supply of rations to a small circus which included a travelling zoo and a campaign against the waste of bread, with a request to display posters throughout the Gardens