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*''Memoirs of William Hickey''. Editions edited by Alfred Spencer, published 1913-1925. Note however the comment that a later version, edited by Peter Quennell, London 1960, is to be preferred to that edited by Alfred Spencer, in which some of Hickey’s racier reportage is expurgated.<ref>Footnote in [http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/Golden_jubilee_vol/articles/H_459%20(PJ%20Marshall).htm "The Muharram Riot Of 1779 And The Struggle For Status And Authority In Early Colonial Calcutta"] by P J Marshall ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Golden Jubilee Volume 50 2005''</ref> Quennell’s edition was a one volume selection, with a slightly expanded edition in 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160225021853/https://books-and-records.com/products/58/1913/william_hickey_memoirs_of_a_georgian_rake_folio_society/ William Hickey: Memoirs of a Georgian Rake] books-and-records.com, now an archived webpage.</ref>
: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) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41512 Volume III archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41514 Volume 1V Archive.org].
:Edited by Peter Quennell: [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hickrich ''The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey''] 1962, [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hick/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file] are available to borrow from . Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This appears to be the USA title. UK title ''Memoirs of William Hickey'' 1960. [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwilliam0000hick/page/n3/mode/2up 1984 reprint of 1975 edition]. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:A subsequent edition, edited by Roger Hudson, was published in 1995 under the title ''Memoirs of a Georgian Rake'', and is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01007249327
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/n8/mode/2up ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''] by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/72/mode/2up 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. Jemima Kindersley was the wife of a Bengal Army Officer. For further details, including letter transcriptions see [[Travel accounts online]].
