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*[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.
*''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.
: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]].
*[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
*Calcutta in September 1800, [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA454 part 12] Google Books. (Full details in an India List post.<ref>Evers, Maureen. [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.ancestry.comorg/web/20210102111255/hyperkittyhttps:/list/india@mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=2240405/ Journals] ''Rootsweb India List'' 30 December 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2018, archived.</ref>)
*''Indian Recreations; Consisting Chiefly Of Strictures On The Domestic And Rural Economy Of The Mahomedans & Hindoos'' by Rev William Tennant, lately one of His Majesty’s Chaplains in India. Second edition, enlarged and corrected 1804, first published 1803. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WdMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I] With a [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WdMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7 Glossary Of Indian Terms] page vii [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WdMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7 Contents] page xxi. Contains chapters on Calcutta. ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=39BaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=39BaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Contents] page v). Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32669/2015.32669.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol29#page/n139/mode/2up "A Young Civilian in Bengal in 1805"] by Isaac Henry Townley Roberdeau, appointed Writer 29th August 1799, page 110, ''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', Jan-June 1925. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''The stranger in India : or, Three years in Calcutta'' by George W. Johnson, Advocate of the Supreme Court at Calcutta. 1843 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eOkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nbpFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/b22011213/page/n9 ''An Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch. A letter from an artist in India to his mother in England''] [by Colesworthey Grant] 1849 Archive.org. Includes the artist's sketches and descriptions of domestic life in Calcutta, and description of places such as the various Bazars, including the Burra Bazar "occupied or visited by merchants and travellers from all parts of the East".
:''Portrait Sketches of the public characters of Calcutta, published in the "India Review", "India Medical"... from 1838 to 1850'' by Colesworthey Grant. Catalogued 1863, but possibly earlier. Text followed by the Portrait Sketches. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082439443&view=1up&seq=7 HathiTrust Digital Library]. (2nd part of book file is [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082439443?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 ''Sketches of Oriental Heads''] by Colesworthey Grant). Text only [https://archive.org/details/b30469302 Archive.org]
:The names have been transcribed for a [https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1063&s_id=56 FIBIS Database]
*[https://archive.org/details/yesterdaytodayin00blan ''Yesterday and To-day in India''] by Sydney Laman Blanchard 1867 Archive.org. He was in India c 1854-1864. He was initially editor of the ''Bengal Hurkaru''. [http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=32 Sidney Laman Blanchard (1825–1883)] victorianresearch.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 "Adulterated Liquor sold to Sailors and Soldiers in the Bazars of Calcutta"] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 "The dangers to which Sailors and Soldiers are exposed in the Bazars of Calcutta"] from ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports'' by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
