Letters from J & R Kemp and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway Bill
Letters from William Saville Kent of the Museum and Institute of Pisciculture Society Limited, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a marine observatory and laboratory in connection with the Brighton Aquarium, his appointment as Inspector of Fisheries to the Government of Tasmania, his application to become a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, his inspection of the fish house, enquiries about the vacant post of Prosector, and a proposed British Zoological Station for the study of marine animals and plats with relation to the advancement of the sciences of biology and economic pisciculture
Letters from Francis Knollys to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a male kangaroo and an alligator to be sent from Sandringham to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Lord Alfred Henry Paget to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding visits to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Sir Granville Ransome Bantock thanking Philip Lutley Sclater for free admission to the Zoological Gardens
Letters from Baring Brothers and Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of the ship Renshaw at St Katharine's Docks with the animals shipped by Mr Du Chaillu
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
Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried
Letters from Gilbert Bayes to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding renewals of his ticket to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Charles William De La Poer Beresford to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets and visits to the Zoological Society of London