Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach to David William Mitchell regarding the removal of his name from the list of fellows of the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Mrs Bompas to David William Mitchell regarding employment at the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce to David William Mitchell regarding the gift of a female hippopotamus from Egypt for the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Sir Victor Casolain to David William Mitchell regarding a lion and lioness forwarded to the care of Mr Boucher at Malta, and to be sent to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from J M Davies regarding the shipment of animals to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from John Gould regarding his proposition to exhibit his hummingbirds
Correspondence between John Houston, David William Mitchell and the South Australian Banking Company regarding the sale of birds and a request by Prince Albert to bring a Platypus, Lyre Tailed Pheasant and Black Mackaw to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from H C James to David William Mitchell regarding his dispatch to Calcutta from Darjeeling, and birds that are destined for the Zoological Society of London
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 William Henry Leigh to David William Mitchell regarding the opening of the Gardens of the Zoological Society on a Sunday