Letter from S N A Drummond Hay regarding the shipping of animals by HM sloop 'Procuris', preliminary notice of proposed shipment of animals via Gibraltar, a few specimens that have been sent via a friend and agent in Gibraltar, thanks for the volume of Desmarish and confirmation that they will send to the Zoological Society of London every rare animal within their reach
Letter from John Green to David William Mitchell regarding the transport of the hippopotamus on the 'Ripon' for the Zoological Society of London
Letter from N Melton to David William Mitchell regarding a shipment of crown birds, a monkey and a scotchman bird for the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Alfred Newton to David William Mitchell regarding a shipment of two deerhound and two turkey cocks from St Croix to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from William Tyler Hamilton saying the elephant had arrived and appeared least worse for it. It was a valuable addition to the collection. They are likely to lost the last fine male as it was showing signs of enlargement of the epiglottis which proved fatal in the female
Letter from H Dormenberg to Philip Lutley Sclater, and draft reply, regarding the price of eider-ducks
Letter from Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his possible purchase of a gorilla which had arrived in London