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*[https://digital.soas.ac.uk/n_burmanews ''Rangoon Diocesan Association: Quarterly Paper''] Printed in London. (Church of England, "Affiliated to S.P.G." (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts)). Quarterly issues from 1897 to 1927 when it was superseded by ''Burma News'' available online to 1970. SOAS Digital Library. London University.The issue for June 1898 listed Clergy and English Missionaries throughout Burma. If the link is not permanent [http://digital.soas.ac.uk Search] using keyword Rangoon or Burma News.
*[https://archive.org/details/39002086291359.med.yale.edu ''The Burma Medical Manual : containing rules for the management of charitable hospitals and dispensaries and for the guidance of medical officers under the Government of Burma ; issued under authority''] 1898 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173166/page/n1 ''The Soul Of A People''] by H Fielding Hall [Harold] 1909 edition, first published 1898. It is indicated elsewhere that he was a senior lawyer in the Civil Service in Burma.
:[https://archive.org/details/thibawsqueen00fieluoft/page/n5 ''Thibaw's Queen''] by H Fielding (later H Fielding Hall) 1899 Archive.org.
:Also see Fiction, below.
*[https://archive.org/details/englishgirlsfirs00elliiala ''An English girl's first impression of Burmah''] by Beth Ellis 1899 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] by Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[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 details, 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.
