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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 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

Letter from William Brown to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price of a koala or native bear, and a request for reptiles from Queensland

Letter from Croizet bird dealers to Philip Lutley Sclater

Memorandum of agreement between Hugh Cuming and the Zoological Society of London for his collection of shells. Also one letter to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the agreement

Letters from Carl Hagenbeck to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his catalogue of animals for sale to the Zoological Society of London, and an order from the British government for the supply of dromedaries

Letter from John D Hamlyn to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding a gorilla and a chimpanzee for sale

Letter from J Hargreave to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the offer for sale of a chimpanzee monkey from West Africa, including a list of tricks he could perform

Letters from William Heame regarding the arrival of the Brig 'Adak' at London Docks with a Hawksbill Turtle, 2 Land Tortoises, 1 male ditto, 1 Pigeon, 6 Doves and a flamingo which is supposed to be dead and only a skin. Also speaks of the arrival of his display cabinet and asks the Zoological Society of London to select and withdraw all the insects they desire from drawers of his in their possession

Letter from Horlock to the Superintendent of the Zoological Society of London Garden asking for instructions as to transport by sea and enquiries as to the price of animals to be disposed of