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Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an adoption scheme run by the Zoological Society of London, including for a Nagor Antelope, a Monkey called Bingo, a Green Monkey called Charlie, red and yellow macaws, poultry for the Children's Zoo, Patagonian Cavy, Sooty Mangabey, Parrots, a Dingo called Tony, Marmots, Minnie the Tree Kangaroo, Ali the Bear, a Fox cub called Margery, a Sooty Mangabey called Betsy, and a lion and snowy owl

Letters from William K Ball to David William Mitchell regarding a lion that was in possession of Sir Vincent Casolain and was to be deposited at the Zoological Society of London

Letters from R I Bouchier to David William Mitchell regarding five ostriches for the Zoological Society of London, a lion from Sir Vincent Casolain and a collection of living reptiles

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and R S Goddard of Chessington Zoo regarding the purchase of the Lion 'Marath' from the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Winston Churchill and George Soper Cansdale regarding the health of Rota the Lion

Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander

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

Correspondence between Leon Fisher and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request by the wife of the late Great Carmo, an illusionist, for a lion to present an illusion

Letters from Wilhelm Hagenbeck to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Society of London's account, and a request to purchase some lions

Correspondence between H L Hatch and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a young male lion cub sent by Chief Mohammed Makongoro K.M. of Ikizu Chiefdom of Musoma, for the schoolchildren of Great Britain and a consignment of animals being brought by Mr Hatch, the Head Keeper of Dudley Zoo