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*[https://archive.org/details/inlandwatertrans00rang ''Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section)''], published July 1952 or later. Archive.org. Information - Passage regulations, schedules etc. Includes a
**[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/n82/mode/1up Map of the Irrawaddy River] facing page 43 with [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/45/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Stations"], page 45
*Dictionaries etc
**[https://archive.org/details/acw6962.0001.001.umich.edu/page/n5/mode/2up ''Judson's Burmese-English dictionary''] Revised and enlarged by Robert C Stevenson, Burma Commission. 1893 Archive.org. Contains Burmese script.
**[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/6166 ''Tables for the transliteration of Burmese into English''] Superintendent Government Printing, Rangoon 1907. Central Secretariat Library, Delhi (Govt.of India)
**[https://archive.org/details/burmeseselftaugh00stjorich/page/n1/mode/2up ''Burmese self-taught (in Burmese and Roman characters) with phonetic pronunciation. (Thimm's system.)''] R F St. A St. John 1911 Archive.org
**[http://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000380/00001 ''Short Glossary of Burmese''] First edition, January 1945. GSGS War Office, London. SOAS Digital Collections, University of London. Uses transliterations (Roman characters).
====Fiction====
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000041D18 ''The Orchid of Fô; or, a Tale from Burma'']. By S. C. M. 1896 British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/dacoitstreasureo00mooriala ''The Dacoit's Treasure, or, In the Days of Po Thaw : a Story of Adventure in Burma''] by Henry Charles Moore c 1897 Archive.org. With illustrations.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044086882149?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Palace Tales''] by H. Fielding (later H Fielding Hall) 1900 HathiTrust Digital Library. Traditional tales. For other books by this author, refer above.
*[https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79b/ ''Burmese Days''] a novel by George Orwell, first published 1934. eBooks@Adelaide The University of Adelaide Library. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200051.txt Project Gutenberg Australia version] The author’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair and the novel is based on his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Orwell was stationed from December 1926 to June 1927 in the northern town of [[Katha]], on which the fictional town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma in the novel is based. For more detailsonline book links, see [[George Orwell]].
* See [[Cecil Champain Lowis]]. Lowis was a member of the Indian Civil Service in Burma until 1912, who wrote more than a dozen novels set in Burma, from 1899 until 1936.
