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:Edited by Alfred Spencer: [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].
:Edited by Peter Quennell: [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hickrich ''The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey''] 1962 is available to borrow from the Archive.org Lending Library. (Only one person at a time is able to read the book). You first need to register.
*[http://travel-letters.org/kindersley/ The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley], transcriptions from the book first published in 1777 ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''. The letters from India commence with Letter 18 in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Letters 20-21, and 64-67 are written from Calcutta. Note: Only the first page of the letter is displayed, click on the image for a full transcription. travel-letters.org.
*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
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