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
Letter from Albert Bruce Joy to Philip Lutley Sclater about studying lions in the Zoological gardens
Letters from Herbert Thomas Dicksee to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London and his etched plates of lions and tigers, proofs of which he offered to the Society
Letter from Jerrard Tickell to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding a visit by a group of visitors to the Lion House
Manchester
March 14 1845
Sir
There is one Lion with a good and showy mane. he has a defective tail, that is to say the last three inches of it is turned up abruptly; this beast I should not like to give more than three hundred guineas for - the second Lion they say is six years old, I think he is not so old; he has less mane than the one at the Gardens, that belongs to White, he is a large beast, but has what is called a broken nose, that is to say he bears the appearance that a fighting man does - he is a larger animal than the first mentioned - the outside value of this one I should say was two hundred pounds - the first mentioned one is the same sort and looks exactly like the one at the Surrey Gardens the elephant is fine and they expect a long price. I should say he was well worth six hundred pounds - the giraffe is a female, and by far the best animal in the collection, appears in perfect health and condition, she is not as I was informed crooked on the legs, but a beast well worthy of being added to our collection, let her fetch what price she will this animals is well worth three hundred and fifty guineas to the Society - the Leopard is fine, but he lost all four canines and has got a severe cold in one eye - five pounds would be plenty of money for him - The Lion cubs are male and female about 15 inches high, they were cubbed in the collection, the point of interest about them is, that they are living on good terms in the same den with the maned Lion - one of them is what is called [Mooney?] headed they are not worth £20 the two.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient Servant
Louis Prater
If the Society feel inclined to purchase the Elephant, there is a man here I think would buy our large one. The Elephant is full 8ft high
Paper by George Thomson on Rota, Churchill's Victory Lion
Letter from H Ince regarding an account of lions and his intention to meet Edward Turner Bennett at Bruton St the next day
Letters from Wilhelm Hagenbeck to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Society of London's account, and a request to purchase some lions
Letter from Philip Hermogenes Calderon to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting a card permitting his son, William Francis Calderon, to sketch lions and leopards at the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with Mrs D Flower regarding moving the bust of Sir Stamford Raffles from the Lion House