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7th Feby 1844

I hereby declare that Messrs Piper have not received any authorisation from me in writing or otherwise to underlet any part of the works in or about the terrace and dens - or in the Museum located in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and farther that the words in the specification "letting" as [tack work?] mean underletting

E.W. Elmslie

Letter from Edmund Wallace Elmslie, architect and surveyor of London Zoo, to William Ogilby regarding work in the Zoo by Mssrs Piper. Also an indenture between Edmund Wallace Elmslie and the Zoological Society of London regarding Elmslie's claims against the Society in relation to a contract between the Society and Mssrs Thomas Piper and Son