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*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000357DE ''Jottings and recollections of a Bengal “Qui hye!”''] by Louis Emanuel [1886] British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiansketchesra00daly ''Indian Sketches and Rambles''] by J Bowles Daly 1896 Archive.org. Contains chapters on Calcutta, including [https://archive.org/stream/indiansketchesra00daly#page/60/mode/2up "The General Hospital"] page 60
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.664/page/n1/mode/2up ''Hotch Potch and Kedgeree''] “being mainly Sir Allan Arthur’s personal experience in the “Land of Humour” in Scotland, India and elsewhere…Also a number of Caricatures and Sketches by Mr F C Macrae and others”. Catalogued 1916 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Contains many references to Calcutta, including the Calcutta Scottish [Volunteer Regiment] and Royal Calcutta Turf Club.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53429 ''John Barleycorn Bahadur: Old Time Taverns in India''] by Major H Hobbs [Harry] 1944 (2nd edition with Index, first published 1943?) Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Some other, but not all, publications by this author, published in Calcutta, are available at the [[British Library]]. [http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1196763 Author details] in photograph description from Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.
*''Report of the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town of Calcutta'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Third Half-yearly Report 1850], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP23 Fourth Half-yearly Report 1851], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP45 Tenth Report, for the year 1853] Google Books
