Letter from William Pryor to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding a request to add labels to a great portion of the animals at the Zoological Society of London

Sir John Walsh presents his compliments to Mr Vigors & begs to represent to him the impertinence which he experienced from a Gate Keeper of the name of Parker at the Zoological Gardens this afternoon. This person in demanding Sir John's umbrella & in reply to an observation that as shown was threatening, he was unwilling to relinquish it and with great insolence that it was no use taking, he must have it, & his behaviour was the more improper as Sir John was accompanied by Lady Jane & his children. If the Society find it necessary to adopt a regulation, which in a large garden, & in a showery season must be admitted to be an inconvenient & annoying one to the visitors, it must be their wish that it should be enforced with the greatest civility and they cannot desire to licence their Servants to accost persons of respectability with the manners and tone of a police officer to a pickpocket

28 Berkeley Square
Wednesday

Complaint against Gate Keeper
24 June [1830]

Letters from Thomas Bell regarding his apologies that he will be unable to meet Edward Turner Bennett at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, proposed changes to the Gardens of the Society, a recommendation for William Cranley to work in the museum and an invitation to dinner

Letters from William John Broderip to Edward Turner Bennett regarding the entrance ticket to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London belonging to Prince Talleyrand, a rhinoceros close to Thames Police Office which could be purchased by the Society, the plan of building at the Park versus a town house, a newspaper report regarding the Zoological Society of London being in treaty with the agent of the Marquess of Anglesea for the purchase of Uxbridge House, and a specimen for the Gardens

Letter from James Browning giving thanks for friendly advice to withdraw a motion. He says that he had forgotten the invaluable services of Mr Vigors to the Zoological Society of London. He invites Edward Turner Bennett to a 10 acre estate for a specifically defined period. Also a ticket for admittance to the Garden of the Horticultural Society

Letter from William Cannon returning 12 tickets in appreciation of Edward Turner Bennett arranging visits for 227 children to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London the previous year

Letters from J L Cox regarding the keeping of birds in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and a donation of animals from a friend for the Society

Letter from J Deal regarding his visit to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in August. He did not see species of guinea fowl he had brought from upper Gambia so offers a pair to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from the Duke of Somerset to Sir Stamford Raffles apologising for not visiting the Zoological Society of London, and giving thanks for having been named Vice President of the Society

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding his recent illness, kind enquiries from the Council of the Zoological Society of London, and Dr Richard Clarke of Bristol Zoo