Letters from Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, Private Secretary to the Governor General of India, to David William Mitchell regarding occurrences in the upper provinces of India which prevent the sending of Himalayan birds to England and the agent sent to Calcutta by the Zoological Society of London, a wild goat sent for presentation to Prince Albert, and a collection of hill birds for Prince Albert
Articles of Agreement and correspondence between John Warwick with the Zoological Society of London and the Earl of Derby regarding a voyage to Egypt and Nubia to procure live animals and birds for the Zoological Society of Lonon
Copies of letters regarding the drainage system of the gardens of the Zoological Society into Regent's Canal, with accompanying map
Letters from Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema regarding an unmounted lion's skin and a letter in support of an artist being allowed to study in the Zoological Gardens
Letters from Sir Samuel White Baker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding notes and sketches of Hippotragus Bakeri
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 George Bennett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding donation of wood hens to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Francis Trevelyan Buckland of the Salmon Fisheries Office, to Philip Lutley Sclater
Letters from Sir Francis Cowley Burnand to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding admission to the Zoological Society of London, also one admission ticket
Letters from Arthur Gardiner Butler to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attendance at committee meetings and illustrations for publications