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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029787383#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Thackerays in India and some Calcutta graves''] by Sir William Wilson Hunter 1897 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MvgFbfjoUx8C&pg=PR8 ''The history, design, and present state of the religious, benevolent and charitable institutions, founded by the British in Calcutta and its vicinity''] by Charles Lushington 1824 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/b22274777/mode/2up ''Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta''] by James Ranald Martin, Presidency Surgeon 1837 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/b21949086/page/n5/mode/2up/ ''Official report on the medical topography and climate of Calcutta : with brief notices of its prevalent diseases, endemic and epidemic''] by James Ranald Martin, Presidency Surgeon 1839 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b28988048/mode/2up ''Extracts from the topography and vital statistics of Calcutta : embracing observations on these subjects formed at different periods, and officially submitted to the local authorities''] by F P Strong, Surgeon 24-Pergunnahs. A collection, published c 1849, of previously published papers in journals noted on the book webpage, written from 1828 to 1848, but not in chronological order. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/recollectionsofc00massiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Recollections of Calcutta for over half a century''] by Montague Massey 1918 Archive.org
*''Calcutta in the 19th Century'' by P Thankappan Nair contains extracts by many authors and is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. The contents is computer digital page 10, and the index is computer digital page 1028. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.47382 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32155 ''Old Calcutta Cameos''] by B V Roy 1946 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa ''Bygone Days in India''] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org. Extracts from accounts by various authors. Includes Calcutta. Covers the period early 1800s to c 1857.
:Edited by Peter Quennell: [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hickrich ''The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey''] 1962 is available to borrow from the Archive.org Lending Library. (Only one person at a time is able to read the book). You first need to register.
: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
*[httphttps://travel-lettersarchive.org/kindersleydetails/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/n8/mode/ The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley], transcriptions from the book first published in 1777 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. Note: Only Jemima Kindersley was the first page wife of the letter is displayed, click on the image for a full transcription. travel-letters.orgBengal Army Officer. For further details , including letter transcriptions see [[Travel accounts online]].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZflAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41 Calcutta in 1774] page 41 ''Genuine Memoirs of Asiaticus'' by Philip Dormer Stanhope 1784. Google Books. The book contains letters written from 1773 to 1778.
*''A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ...'' by L de Grandpré, an officer in the French Army. 1803. [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0001/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0002/page/n5 Volume II]. Includes chapters on Calcutta. Also published with a slightly different title. Archive.org
:A broken range of volumes to 1939, plus 1955 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, with mirror editions on Archive.org. For online editions, see '''[[Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society]]'''
:Restricted access only, possibly available to those in North America and some other countries [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000542668 Hathi Trust Digital Library]
:*Transcriptions from Registers of St John's, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared in ''Bengal Past and Present''. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes. Some articles are available online, on the Digital Library of India website, or through the as mirror editions on Archive.org, originally from Digital Library of India. Other articles are available at the [[British Library]]. '''Note''': Records for Baptisms 1767-1777 have been transcribed and are available on the [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1979&s_id=1064&sort=0&st=0&np=14&tn=412 FIBIS database] in the category Publications.
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n351/mode/2up Baptisms 1713-1758] BPP Volume XXI, pp 143-159. Archive.org/DLI
:**Baptisms 1759-1766 BPP Volume V, pp 325-332
