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Letter from the building contractors Rice and Son, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the construction of the new Elephant House

Letters from David Seth-Smith to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding plans for the proposed new Elephant House and meetings of the Elephant House Committee

Correspondence with E H Tong regarding the exchange of Red-breasted Geese, and the measurements of the Elephant called 'Carla' which was being returned to Hanover

Letter from I G Laverick to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding elephants in China

Letter from Joseph Charlton Parr to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an exhibition of P T Barnum's white elephant, Toung Taloung, at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Statement of Claim from Eliza Adelaide Pocklington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an attack by an elephant at the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Frederic Brine to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the living conditions of a gorilla, a sacred white elephant which was said to have been in Siam but which he refuted, and the height and weight of Jumbo and Jenny

Letter from R Gouldsmith to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the elephant at the gardens of 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 Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly