Correspondence with the Coryndon Museum regarding the sale of an Ostrich to the Zoological Society of London, and the offer of a Cricetomys and a Hinged Tortoise
Correspondence with Otto Focklemann regarding the sale of animals
Correspondence with Lady Zoe Hart-Dyke of Lullingstone Silk Farm Ltd, regarding the rearing of Emus, the sale of Peafowl, and Lyre-Birds
Correspondence between Major H Hendy and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of animals from Swaziland to the Zoological Society of London
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
Letter from William Brown to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price of a koala or native bear, and a request for reptiles from Queensland
Letters from Carl Hagenbeck to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his catalogue of animals for sale to the Zoological Society of London, and an order from the British government for the supply of dromedaries
Letters from William Jamrach to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price of animals for sale, including lions
Letters from George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Japanese deer for sale at the Zoological Society of London, and a deputation of Swazi Chiefs who would like to visit the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Sandwich Islands, papers on birds of the Sandwich Islands, drawings of a Rail, ornithological exhibitions, the sale of a rhinoceros, his drawing of a rhinoceros to be published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, his Cassowaries at Tring, a transfer of Tragelaphus, Galapagos Tortoises, Eclectus Parrots, Lemurs and Zebras