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 The Graphic to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a drawing by Sir Harry Johnston of his new mammal

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

Letters from Henry Stacey Marks to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting him to send someone to fetch two herring gulls, a reference for Miss L Murray to sketch in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, and a reference for Dr Ramage who was a candidate for the post of Medical Attendant to the keepers of the Zoological Society

Letters from Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Sandwich Islands, papers on birds of the Sandwich Islands, drawings of a Rail, ornithological exhibitions, the sale of a rhinoceros, his drawing of a rhinoceros to be published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, his Cassowaries at Tring, a transfer of Tragelaphus, Galapagos Tortoises, Eclectus Parrots, Lemurs and Zebras

Correspondence with Peter Johnson of Oscar and Peter Johnson Limited regarding the price of the drawing of an Ocelot by James Wolf

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 William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, to Philip Lutley Sclater recommending Miss Jackson to be admitted to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London to paint

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 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