Correspondence sent to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in his professional capacity as a scientist, Museum Curator and Museum Director, 1887-1922.

Included are letters from various Museums and Institutions, letters from Bashford Dean, Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer and forty items of correspondence sent to E. R. Waite, 1901-1923 from David Starr Jordan, Ichthyologist and Founding President of Stanford University, California, U.S.A. Also included is a letter book and correspondence from James Douglas Ogilby, an Ichthyologist and Australian Museum colleague of E. R. Waite.