Correspondence with Rathbone Books Limited regarding Tristan Moorhens
Personal and professional letters to Joan Procter. Many of the letters have their original envelopes. There are a few replies. Includes pressed flowers from R Pascoli; and a photograph of Franz Werner. Some letters are signed only with first names
Dear Miss Buckland
If you per Mit me to try to Mit-igate
the wildness of Mit I hope you
will ad-Mit that I re-Mit her in a
Mit-igated condition - if not we
must make out a Mit-timus &
send her to a Mit-tan
Pray send her in her Mittens
Yours ever
J.B.
Letters from Professor Dr J J Hess of Zurich to Patrick Alfred Buxton, regarding the correct forms of the Arabic names of reptiles and mammals, and general notes on transliteration and the use of diacritical points
Correspondence between Henry Gascoyne Maurice, Maud L Davys and Lieutenant Colonel G I Davys regarding a dispute with the Officers of the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence about Arabian Oryx conservation and reintroduction
Letter from Gallard to Philip Lutley Sclater
Letter from J P Gassiot to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding P T Barnum and Jumbo the elephant
Letters from Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of the Jardin Zoologique D'Acclimatation to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding matters including the transport of kangaroos and birds to be sent to the Zoological Society of London