Correspondence with G H Swynerton regarding the transport of animals
Correspondence with V Blackwell regarding the diet and rearing of Tarsiers
Correspondence with Lady Olive Bailie regarding her trip to London Zoo and a tour of the birds, and invitation to see her collection of birds, and an offer of Masked Lovebirds for Lady Bailie
Correspondence with Professor K Lorenz regarding a grey lag, a jackdaw and a mallard to be taken to Lime Grove, a paper on the ethology of the European Bullfinch by Dr Jurgen Nicolai, and a request for bullfinches from Calcutta
Correspondence with Rathbone Books Limited regarding Tristan Moorhens
Letter giving thanks for assistance rendered to Mr Lester when he was collecting animals in Sierra Leone
Correspondence between Jack Lester and George Soper Cansdale regarding collecting animals in Njala
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