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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

Correspondence between J Brown and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase of snakes

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of animals from Argentina and Chile to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Keith Caldwell and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale and transport of animals to and from the Zoological Society of London

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

Correspondence with the Coryndon Museum regarding the sale of an Ostrich to the Zoological Society of London, and the offer of a Cricetomys and a Hinged Tortoise

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

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and animal dealers such as the Snake King, the Earl of Yarborough, G C Sauvage and John Alabi & Company regarding animals for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Jean Delacour and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the acquisition and transport of Pere David's Deer from the Duke of Bedford for New York Zoological Society, and also the the transport of snakes