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Letter from F N Warren to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a leopard

Letter from Willem Vrolik to Philip Lutley Sclater offering a live specimen of leopard to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between P Robinson and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of a Leopard cub and other animals from India to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between J Ray and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer of a Leopard cub to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Sir James Outram and David William Mitchell regarding an offer of tigers and a request for game birds, hunting cheetahs, the common leopard, hyenas, jackals and wolves

Correspondence between B L Mitchell and George Soper Cansdale regarding payment for shipments of animals to the Zoological Society of London and the subject of rearing young Leopards

Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards

Letter from W Masters to Joseph Sabine at Bruton Street regarding a present received by Canterbury Museum from S R Lushington, recently returned from India, comprising of 2 Hunt Leopards, 1 Royal Tiger and 2 Black Monkeys. They are currently in the West Indies Docks. The Museum has no facilities for handling them and asks to send for the animals to Regent's Park

Correspondence between Commander W W Jacomb and George Soper Cansdale regarding a male leopard called Waffles that Jacomb presented to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Gerald Hyde and George Soper Cansdale regarding requests to purchase Syrian Brown Bears, Leopards and Cheetahs from the Zoological Society of London