Letter from Edward Bourke Ellis to Philip Lutley Sclater offering to bring a few gorillas to England on his return from Africa

Letter from W Hancock to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the sale of a pair of blue faced gorillas to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Frank Harrison to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price for a pair of young gorillas from Africa

Correspondence between the University Museum in Oxford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding drawings by Mrs Purves, and records of a baby Gorilla from the Zoological Society of London which went to the Department of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford

Paper and draft letter for consideration regarding mountain gorillas

Papers relating to the opening of Gorilla Kingdom, including guest lists, speech notes, correspondence, maps and invitations

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 Bill Harwood and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of animals, including a baby Gorilla, from Lagos to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Spanish United Maritime and Commercial Overseas Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a young male Gorilla named Johnnie in Bata which the Zoological Society of London wished to acquire

Includes purchase of mountain gorillas from Charles Cordier, and expense files