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*[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/306/mode/2up "British Burmah"] page 306 ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862'' by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RegiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Hand-book for British Burma''] by George Edward Fryer 1867 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/mychildlifeinbur00bixb/page/n7 ''My child-life in Burmah, or, Recollections and Incidents''] by Olive Jennie Bixby 1880. The author, born 1856, was the daughter of an American missionary who appears to have left Burma c 1865. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=r4JCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Bhamo Expedition: Report on the practicability of re-opening the trade route, between Burma and Western China''] by Captain A Bowers 1869 Google Books includes
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=r4JCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA129 ''Preface to the Administration Report of British Burmah for 1867-68''] by Major General A. Fytche, C. S. I. Chief Commissioner , page 129
* ''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524247 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was a member of the Civil Service in Burma, and his autobiography covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930. Also see [[Maurice Collis]].
* ''The Rebellion In Burma (April 1931-March 1932)'' 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207435 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-where-china-meets-burma-life-and-travel-in-the-burma-china-border-lands-by-metford-s-pdf/ ''Where China Meets Burma. : Life and Travel in the Burma-China Border Lands''] by Beatrix Metford 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. (If download does not display, located in Books/Tibet And China). A description of the book elsewhere indicates the author accompanied her husband, who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. From elsewhere, it appears she was the second wife of Stanley Wyatt-Smith of Britain's China Consular Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/bamboohospitalst00read/page/n3 ''Bamboo Hospital; the Story of a Missionary family in Burma''] by Katherine Read with Robert O Ballou 1961 Archive.org Lending Library. Albert Henderson, an American Baptist medical missionary and his wife Cora arrived in Burma in 1893, and worked in Mongnai and Taunggyi in the Shan States. Albert was in 1932 awarded a gold Kaiser-I -Hind medal and died in Burma in 1937.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PP1 ''Songs of The Survivors''], including the [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA7 Editor’s Preface] Google Books. Stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek of 1942
