Letters from Wolfram Onslow Ford to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting artist tickets for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London

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

Letter from Adrian Jones to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting permission to model or draw from the animals 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

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

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 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 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