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:*''An Analysis of the Experiment in Education, made at Egmore, near Madras'' Edition 3 (1807) 115 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC Google Books] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC&pg=PP15 Contents])
:*''The Madras School: or, Elements of Tuition: comprising the Analysis of an Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum, Madras; with its facts, proofs, and illustrations'' (1808) 348 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC Google Books] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PR11 Contents]). [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA212 Page 212] onwards contains letters written by his former pupils to Dr Bell, including a listing of names from the bottom of [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA218 page 218] to page 223.
*1829 letter by W Webbe, former pupil, regarding his schooldays c 1790’s footnotes [http://books.google.com/books?id=xgNPsoCD9i4C &pg=PA397 pages 397-398]. He appears as William Webbe in the list of Foundation Boys for 1790 in the listing of names on page 222 of the Madras School
*Page 59 of this Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59 link], published 1842. A description of the Egmore Redoubt appears in this [http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/23/stories/2003042300110300.htm article] in The Hindu [Newspaper]
* There was a printing press at the Asylum from 1800 [http://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&pg=PA77 Limited View Google Books] page 77, ''Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India'' by Stuart Blackburn (2005)
