Letter from Henry Francis Ainslie to Philip Lutley Sclater about plans for the erection by the Zoological Society of a new 'cats house or house for lions, tigers, and other large Felidae.'
Letters from James Anderson regarding a proposed Zoological Garden in Edinburgh, with a reply from Philip Lutley Sclater
A letter from a Fellow of the Zoological Society to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a lecture given by Professor Huxley
Letter from Edwin Lester Arnold to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting an order for two persons for the Zoological Gardens
Letter from Thomas Ashton to Philip Lutley Sclater asking to withdraw his name as a candidate at the next election of Fellows at the Zoological Society of London
Letter from George Atkins to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an animal that was found in Sierra Leone and exhibited at the Sierra Leone Exhibition
Letters from Sir Granville Ransome Bantock thanking Philip Lutley Sclater for free admission to the Zoological Gardens
Letters from Baring Brothers and Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of the ship Renshaw at St Katharine's Docks with the animals shipped by Mr Du Chaillu
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 Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried