Correspondence between Lord John Sanger & Sons, Limited and A Thompson, Assistant Superintendent at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London regarding special side shows with extra admission, and an elephant to be sent to the Zoo

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 Frank Evers Beddard to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the cause of death of a giraffe in the Zoo, his appointment as Vice-Secretary, meetings of the flower memorial committee, the death of a calf of Sanger's elephant, the death of the Nasalis larvatus, the purchase of a Langur, a collection of plants, and his position as Prosector

Letters from Frederic Brine to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the living conditions of a gorilla, a sacred white elephant which was said to have been in Siam but which he refuted, and the height and weight of Jumbo and Jenny

Letter from Benjamin Hill Evans to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding white elephants at the Zoological Society of London

Letter from J P Gassiot to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding P T Barnum and Jumbo the elephant

Letter from I G Laverick to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding elephants in China

Letter from Robert McLachlan of The Entomological Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an elephant trunk that was suffering from caries

Letter from Joseph Charlton Parr to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an exhibition of P T Barnum's white elephant, Toung Taloung, at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Statement of Claim from Eliza Adelaide Pocklington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an attack by an elephant at the Zoological Society of London