Correspondence between Leslie Martin Flewin and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale and surplus of animals from German zoological collections, and animals and birds on loan from Hagenbeck's Tierpark in Hamburg

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Kathleen Goddard, and letter of introduction from David Seth-Smith, regarding the sale of a budgerigar

Correspondence between D Goodwin and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request to purchase a cock barbary dove from London Zoo

Correspondence between H J Indge and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of a hen Leadbeater's Cockatoo to H J Indge by the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Marine Biological Association and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of fish to the Zoological Society of London

Photograph of a deer called Pixie, with correspondence between Miss R F Vinning and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of a pair of Wallabies from Whipsnade

Correspondence between John Houston, David William Mitchell and the South Australian Banking Company regarding the sale of birds and a request by Prince Albert to bring a Platypus, Lyre Tailed Pheasant and Black Mackaw to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of Derby, and David William Mitchell regarding a list of desirables from the sale catalogue of the aviary and menageries at Knowsley Hall

Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum

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