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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MvgFbfjoUx8C&pg=PR8 ''The history, design, and present state of the religious, benevolent and charitable institutions, founded by the British in Calcutta and its vicinity''] by Charles Lushington 1824 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/recollectionsofc00massiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Recollections of Calcutta for over half a century''] by Montague Massey 1918 Archive.org
*''Calcutta in the 19th Century'' by P Thankappan Nair contains extracts by many authors and is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. The contents is computer page 10, and the index is computer page 1028. Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Online books-Digital Library of Indiahttp://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/47382 Pdf download]] for more details about this site., DLI*''Memoirs of William Hickey'', edited by Alfred Spencer, published 1913-1925. (Note however the comment that a later version, edited by Peter Quennell, London 1960 , is to be preferred to that edited by Alfred Spencer, in which some of Hickey’s racier reportage is expurgated<ref>Footnote in [http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/Golden_jubilee_vol/articles/H_459%20(PJ%20Marshall).htm "The Muharram Riot Of 1779 And The Struggle For Status And Authority In Early Colonial Calcutta"] by P J Marshall ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Golden Jubilee Volume 50 2005''</ref>) [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp#page/n1/mode/2up Volume 1 1749-1775] [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp#page/n347/mode/2up/search/Index Index] Archive.org [http://books.google.com/books?id=jXcNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2 1775-1782] [http://books.google.com/books?id=jXcNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA397 Index] Google Books. Volume 3 (1782-1790) and Volume 4 (1790-1809) may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Pdf downloads, DLI: [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/41512 Volume III], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/41514 Volume IV].
*Calcutta in September 1800, [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA454 part 12] Google Books. (Full details in this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1262153252 post])
*Calcutta in 1810 commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA131 page 131] ''Journal of a Residence in India'' by Maria Graham 2nd Edition 1813 Illustrated by Engravings. Google Books
*''The stranger in India : or, Three years in Calcutta'' by George W. Johnson 1843 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eOkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nbpFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 "Adulterated Liquor sold to Sailors and Soldiers in the Bazars of Calcutta"] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 "The dangers to which Sailors and Soldiers are exposed in the Bazars of Calcutta"] from ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports'' by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
*Catholic Institutions [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in Calcutta c 1881 from /handle/2015/128152 ''Indian Gods, Sages, and And Cities'' ] by C Cesary 1881, which contains much information about Calcutta. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.**Catholic Institutions in Calcutta c 1881 Limited View Google Books 1987 [http://books.google.com/books?id=OJ_CknHdCbUC&pg=PA172 page 172] reprint of original published 1881 at Calcutta by Catholic Orphan Press. Reprint available at Cambridge University Library. Preview Google Books 1987
*''Report of the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town of Calcutta'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Third Half-yearly Report 1850], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP23 Fourth Half-yearly Report 1851], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP45 Tenth Report, for the year 1853] Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n427/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 10: Report on the Establishment of Water-Works to Supply the City of Calcutta''] 1853 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0z0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on the Drainage and Conservancy of Calcutta''] by David Boyes Smith M.D., Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal 1869 Google Books
*''Municipal Calcutta: Its Institutions in their Origins and Growth'' by SW Goode 1916, is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Table of Contents is computer page 16. Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Online books-Digital Library of India]http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/33547 Pdf download] for more details about this site, DLI
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/58/mode/2up/ "The City of Calcutta"] from ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources'' by Somerset Playne, J W Bond, edited by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org.
*''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society''
:***Burials 1782-88 Volume 32 II (Oct-Dec 1926) pages 109-132. Available online on DLI, catalogued as vol.32, computer pages 132-155
:*'''Restricted access''' only, possibly available to those in North America and some other countries [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000542668 Hathi Trust Digital Library]
*[https://archive.org/details/storylallbazarb00wenggoog '' The Story of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church, Calcutta: Being the History of Carey's Church from 24th April 1800 to the Present Day'' ] by Edward Steane Wenger 1908 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/storylallbazarb00wenggoog#page/n604/mode/2up An Alphabetical List of members of the Church] and other lists, following page 575. [https://archive.org/stream/storylallbazarb00wenggoog#page/n664/mode/2up Index]*"Slavery Days in Old Calcutta" by Syud Hossain, ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume II, Part II 1908'', pages 271-276 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Catalogued as (1908) vol. 2, pt. 2; computer pages 22-27. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/181698 Pdf download vol. 2, pt. 2] DLI.
*John Williamson Palmer was an American [[Doctor|doctor]] and author who wrote c 1858 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta<ref> Reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref>. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58937~!41&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Photograph of Man in Palki (Palanquin) in Calcutta] from the Smithsonian Institution. Click image to enlarge.
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RzxcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Rules and Regulations of La Martiniere, Founded in Calcutta Under the Will of Major General Claude Martin: With an Extract of the Will of the Testator, the Decree of the Supreme Court with Regard to the Same, and Other Documents''] 1835 Google Books
*There are many references to Calcutta in ''History of The Portuguese in Bengal'' by J J A Campos 1919 which is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. For barcode 99999990174384, the Contents is computer page 16. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/5858 Pdf download][http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/6196 Another pdf download] DLI.
*For reports on Rats in Calcutta, in connection with plague research, see [[Scientific books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/tomrawgriffinbur00doylrich ''Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos: illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India company's service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situtation in India''] by “ a Civilian and an Officer on the Bengal Establishment” (Sir Charles D'Oyly) 1828 Archive.org
