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Correspondence between R O Wilson-Kitchen and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding possible vacancies in public relations at the Zoological Society of London

Letters from H Windhorn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport and death of the Queen's Giraffe

Letter from Mervyn Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt and President of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of a stag

Letters from William Edward de Winton to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding appointment as Acting Superintendent of the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and Secretary to the Garden Committee, and his resignation in 1903

Correspondence between Wm Brown, Atkinson and Co Ltd and George Soper Cansdale regarding two pairs of young Black Swans, a present from the Government and people of Western Australia to Winston Churchill

Letter from Philip Lutley Sclater to John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley, regarding smoking in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Memorandum of agreement entered into on the 22nd day of February 1847 between the Zoological Society of London and Charles Wolf of 28 Crosby Row, Walworth, in the Parish of Newington, Country of Surrey, Confectioner. The said Zoological Society agrees to let to the said Charles Wolf and the said Charles Wolf agrees to take from the said Zoological Society the privilege of selling Confectionary and other refreshments at the Gardens of the said Society in the Regents Park, together with the Confectionary Rooms and other accommodation heretofore occupied by Mr Thomas Masters at the said Gardens, for the space of one year from the first day of April next ensuing, at and for the rent or sum of Three Hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling to be paid in advance, that is to say on or before the the thirty first day of March next ensuing. And it is hereby further agreed by and between the said parties that the said Charles Wolf, will not make of cause to be made any alteration in or upon the said premises or any part thereof without the authority in writing of the Secretary of the said Society authorised thereto by an order or Minute of the Council of the said Society, and that he the said Charles Wolf will render up possession of the said premises at the expiration of the aforesaid term of one year in the same condition as they now are, reasonable wear and tear only accepted. And also that it should be lawful for the Society's Architect, from time to time, to enter on the said premises for the purpose of inspecting the same, and of ordering such repairs or alterations as may be considered desirable provided always, and it is hereby further agreed by the said parties that any such alterations as shall be of a permanent character shall be made at the sole cost and charge of the said Society, and that all such alterations and repairs as shall be of a temporary nature, or caused by, or by the neglect of the same Charles Wold shall be, made and executed at the sole cost and charge of the said Charles Wolf, under the direction and by the workmen appointed by the Society's Architect aforesaid.

C. Wolf

Witness John Leigh

Correspondence between Sir Henry Drummond Wolff and David William Mitchell regarding payments to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Otto Wollenweber and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of animals to the Zoological Society of London