Letter from John Yelland, apologising for not being able to bring back any small Hawaiian birds for the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with Winston Churchill regarding his four black swans
Correspondence with Buckingham Palace staff regarding the return of flamingos to Buckingham Palace
Correspondence with Roderick Brinkman regarding his flock of homing budgerigars
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 David Attenborough regarding the diet of Giant Pangolins, a Zoo Quest trip to Paraguay and a request for supplies, a collection of birds, Gerald Durrell's hopes to set up a zoo in Jersey, and two bottle-nosed Dolphins that were caught in the Adriatic and taken to Plymouth by the BBC Natural History Unit