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Letters from Alec Douglas-Home of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, regarding the offer of Pere David Deer to China

Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding getting European Bison from Poland, the Curator of the New York Zoological Society sending White-tailed deer to the Zoological Society of London, an offer of Chartley Cattle and Soay Sheep by the Duke of Bedford, a specimen of the under-coat of the Pere David's deer, the early history of Pere David's deer, an Indian Rhino being brought from Calcutta by ZSL Overseer L M Flewin, Wisent bulls in Stockholm, the rearing of Pere David's deer at Whipsnade, an exchange of Parakeets, and the importation of Pere David's deer to Australia,

Correspondence between Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of birds, leopards and sundries from Calcutta to Colombo

Correspondence between the Fisheries Office in Hong Kong and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of fry and tins to the Zoological Society of London, and a decision not to go forward with a scheme to set up a typical Chinese fish pond as an ecological exhibition at London Zoo

Correspondence between Leslie Martin Flewin and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding collecting animals in India for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with foreign royalty such as Prince Ranier of Monaco, Prince and Princess Hitachi of Japan, King Hussein of Jordan, King Peter II and Queen Salote of Tonga

Correspondence between Wilfred Frost and George Soper Cansdale regarding a shipment of birds from New Guinea and Indonesia

Correspondence between Wilfred C Frost and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding requests for animals from India for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Gaekwar of Baroda and George Soper Cansdale regarding the Maharaja presenting a Tiger cub to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Sir William Gowers and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding A J Ferrier who wrote the book 'Elephants in Burma', and a question on the weight of an elephant before death