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*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1922-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-c-vol-1-punch-kashmir-ladakh-by-mason-s-pdf/ ''Routes in Western-Himalaya Kashmir &c Volume 1 Punch, Kashmir, Ladakh''] by Kenneth Mason. [''Púnch, Kashmír & Ladákh'']. Published under the direction of the Surveyor General of India, 1922 and printed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1929-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-etc-vol-1-by-mason-s-pdf/ 2nd edition 1929, Revised and corrected]. Pdf downloads, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2190/page/n1/mode/2up 1922 Archive.org mirror version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2402/mode/2up 1929, Second edition], Archive.org mirror version.
*''Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926'' by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps''
:[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/5/377.full.pdf Part 1] 1933;60:5 377-392. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/6/456.full.pdf Part 2] 1933;60:6 456-461. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/1/61.full.pdf Part 3] 1933;61:1 61-70. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/2/133.full.pdf Part 4] 1933;61:2 133-144. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/4/304.full.pdf Part 5] 1933;61:4 304-309. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/5/379.full.pdf Part 6] 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 71933;61:6 ?-466: not online. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/2/142.full.pdf Part 8] 1934;62:2 142-150. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/3/224.full.pdf Part 9] 1934;62:3 224-233. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/5/365.full.pdf Part 10] 1934;62:5 365-376. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/6/430.full.pdf Part 11] 1934;62:6 430-440. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/2/127.full.pdf Part 12] 1934;63:2 127-134. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/193.full.pdf Part 13] 1934;63:3 193-206. *[https://archive.org/details/1945-mountain-magic/mode/2up ''Mountain Magic''] by Eve Orme [1945]. About travel to Ladakh in 1926 with her Army officer husband who was on a shooting-trip.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-macartney-at-kashgar-by-skrine-s-pdf/ ''Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918''] by C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan'' first published 1931. A later biography is ''The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945'' by James McCarthy.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023243391 ''Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia''] by Ella Sykes and Percy Sykes, 1920 Archive.org. Covers the brief period in which Percy Sykes relieved Macartney at Kashgar while the latter was on leave in 1916 but is really Percy's sister Ella Sykes’s travel account and says little about consular affairs.
