Letter from J A Shepherd to Peter Chalmers Mitchell requesting a student ticket giving permission to sketch the animals at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Lawson Wood to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the renewal of his ticket to sketch in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Collection of biographical notes on Yarrell; bibliography of his published works; copies, transcriptions and abstracts of letters to and from Yarrell; copies of wood block engravings

Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly

Letter from Cecil Charles Windsor to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting a press pass for the Gardens as he was illustrating a series of articles for the English Illustrated Magazine

Letters from Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema regarding an unmounted lion's skin and a letter in support of an artist being allowed to study in the Zoological Gardens

Letter from Philip Hermogenes Calderon to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting a card permitting his son, William Francis Calderon, to sketch lions and leopards at the Zoological Society of London

Letter from John Collier to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding permission to paint in the Zoological Gardens

Letters from Herbert Thomas Dicksee to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London and his etched plates of lions and tigers, proofs of which he offered to the Society

Letter from Hubert von Herkomer to Philip Lutley Sclater, recommending his student C H Desmond as a fit and proper person to paint in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London