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Letter from Count Arnoldo Girolamo Povoleri, formerly Arnold Harris Mathew, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of land at Brighton for a zoological garden

Correspondence between Mary Etherington and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding Exmoor Ponies for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Captain Beale, Superintendent at Whipsnade Zoo, regarding the return of staff from military service, information about disabled men on the staff at Whipsnade in relation to the Disabled Person (Employment) Act 1944 Quota Scheme, the progress of a baby chimp called Uno, the purchase of wire netting, Whipsnade Committee's visit of inspection to Whipsnade Zoo, accommodation at Chapel Farm and notes on the Whipsnade chimpanzee

Letter regarding a shipment of sea water to the River Thames for use in the Aquarium of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Malcolm Campbell Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding labels for the Reptile House and Children's Zoo

Correspondence between Sydney Turner and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding supplies of Ilex for Okapi and the Wild Turkeys at Whipsnade to be sent to Holkham Park

Correspondence between Gwynne Vevers and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding wages for a resident man and wife, water requirements in the Aquarium, a visit by the Supervisor of the Aquarium at London Zoo to the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, and arctic publications

Photograph of a deer called Pixie, with correspondence between Miss R F Vinning and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of a pair of Wallabies from Whipsnade

Correspondence between Burnet, Tait and Lorne and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding proposed new elephant and rhinoceros houses and paddocks at the Zoological Society of London, and the proposed Tusker Elephant House at Whipsnade Zoo. Also minutes of the Whipsnade Committee 9th December 1936, and an extract from a memo on accommodation for catering staff at Whipsnade (known then as the House of Pleasant Bread)

Letters from Kenneth Clark of the National Gallery, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding John Driberg and Lubetkin's plans for the Elephant House at the the Zoological Society of London