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Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried

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

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 Thomas George Baring to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Gardens at Calcutta

Letters from Baring Brothers and Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of the ship Renshaw at St Katharine's Docks with the animals shipped by Mr Du Chaillu

Letters from Sir Granville Ransome Bantock thanking Philip Lutley Sclater for free admission to the Zoological Gardens

Letters from William K Ball to David William Mitchell regarding a lion that was in possession of Sir Vincent Casolain and was to be deposited at the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Robert Ball, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, to John Barlow regarding the exchange of animals with the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Sir Samuel White Baker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding notes and sketches of Hippotragus Bakeri

Letters from Spencer Fullerton Baird of Washington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding ornithology