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Letter from Arthur Smith Woodward to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding 'the Minchin case' and the investment of £250 in Exchequer Bonds under the control of the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward regarding a meeting by the Estimates Committee about Bushby and Barnett

Letter from Richard Caton Woodville to Philip Lutley Sclater asking about a rare monkey from the Gold Coast

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

Correspondence between Mrs M K Woodford and the Zoological Society of London regarding her offer to act as scrutineer for the ballot of the Council of the Society

Letter from Lawson Wood to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the renewal of his ticket to sketch in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Sir Henry Evelyn Wood to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, regarding the museum collection of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Sir Henry Drummond Wolff and David William Mitchell regarding payments to the Zoological Society of London

Memorandum of agreement entered into on the 22nd day of February 1847 between the Zoological Society of London and Charles Wolf of 28 Crosby Row, Walworth, in the Parish of Newington, Country of Surrey, Confectioner. The said Zoological Society agrees to let to the said Charles Wolf and the said Charles Wolf agrees to take from the said Zoological Society the privilege of selling Confectionary and other refreshments at the Gardens of the said Society in the Regents Park, together with the Confectionary Rooms and other accommodation heretofore occupied by Mr Thomas Masters at the said Gardens, for the space of one year from the first day of April next ensuing, at and for the rent or sum of Three Hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling to be paid in advance, that is to say on or before the the thirty first day of March next ensuing. And it is hereby further agreed by and between the said parties that the said Charles Wolf, will not make of cause to be made any alteration in or upon the said premises or any part thereof without the authority in writing of the Secretary of the said Society authorised thereto by an order or Minute of the Council of the said Society, and that he the said Charles Wolf will render up possession of the said premises at the expiration of the aforesaid term of one year in the same condition as they now are, reasonable wear and tear only accepted. And also that it should be lawful for the Society's Architect, from time to time, to enter on the said premises for the purpose of inspecting the same, and of ordering such repairs or alterations as may be considered desirable provided always, and it is hereby further agreed by the said parties that any such alterations as shall be of a permanent character shall be made at the sole cost and charge of the said Society, and that all such alterations and repairs as shall be of a temporary nature, or caused by, or by the neglect of the same Charles Wold shall be, made and executed at the sole cost and charge of the said Charles Wolf, under the direction and by the workmen appointed by the Society's Architect aforesaid.

C. Wolf

Witness John Leigh