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
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 Thomas George Baring to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Gardens at Calcutta
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 Sir Granville Ransome Bantock thanking Philip Lutley Sclater for free admission to the Zoological Gardens
Letters from Sir Samuel White Baker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding notes and sketches of Hippotragus Bakeri
Letters from Spencer Fullerton Baird of Washington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding ornithology
Letters from John Anderson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Indian Museum in Calcutta
Letters from James Anderson regarding a proposed Zoological Garden in Edinburgh, with a reply from Philip Lutley Sclater
Letters from Morton Allport to Philip Lutley Sclater about the introduction of salmon to the waters of Tasmania