Correspondence with S T Hussain and Sons, Livestock Dealers in Calcutta, regarding the sale of animals to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with the Variety of Birds Emporium regarding the purchase of Dwarf Flamingoes, Spot-billed ducks, Tragopan Pheasants and Demoissile Cranes
Letter from John D Hamlyn to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding a gorilla and a chimpanzee for sale
Correspondence between Terry Jones and George Soper Cansdale regarding prices for animals from Leckford Estate Limited in Stockbridge, Hampshire
Correspondence between Otto Wollenweber and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of animals to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between Dierenpark Wassenaar and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of Shoebill Storks to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from William Heame regarding the arrival of the Brig 'Adak' at London Docks with a Hawksbill Turtle, 2 Land Tortoises, 1 male ditto, 1 Pigeon, 6 Doves and a flamingo which is supposed to be dead and only a skin. Also speaks of the arrival of his display cabinet and asks the Zoological Society of London to select and withdraw all the insects they desire from drawers of his in their possession
Letter from William Martin, Secretary of the Bristol and Clifton Zoological Gardens, to John Barlow regarding a specimen they held of an Active Gibbon which they offered for sale to the Zoological Society of London
Letter regarding the purchase of birds for the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander