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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

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Stanley Reed regarding The Maharajah of Bhavnagar, plans for a new Elephant House at the London Zoological Gardens and a a request for a financial contribution from The Maharajah

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

Letter from Louis Prater to William Ogilby regarding lions, an elephant, and a giraffe available for sale to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Sir Stamford Raffles to Sir Everard Home regarding the head of a young Sumatran elephant sent to Home, the location of Babirusa and information about Toredo

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