Letter from Georgina Hamilton Goodfellow to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding her husband, Mr Hamilton Goodfellow, who was detained on the charge of having stolen a bird from London Zoo
Letter from Walter Hamilton Goodfellow to Philip Lutley Sclater, apologising for stealing a bird from London Zoo
Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards
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 Charles Augustus Murray to David William Mitchell regarding the shipment of animals to the the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London from Egypt, with receipts
Letter from Henry Francis Ainslie to Philip Lutley Sclater about plans for the erection by the Zoological Society of a new 'cats house or house for lions, tigers, and other large Felidae.'
Paul Belloni du Chaillu to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of animals he sent to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Edward Roche to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding birds and other animals being delivered, such as black necked swans, pheasants and antelope
Letter from W B Legros to David William Mitchell regarding a present sent by the Zoological Society to Colonel Bonford and an assurance that Colonel Bonford has in his care the animals gifted by the late Viceroy of Egypt to the Zoological Society of London. Also thanks from Mr Murray for a copy of 'Views'
Letters from Rajendra Mullick to David William Mitchell giving thanks for a shipment of birds shipped from the Zoological Society of London and reports on zoology, and birds and animals onboard the Prince of Wales for the Zoological Society of London