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*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers.
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*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea] Includes information about tea plantations. Also includes the category Publications & Articles which consists of many online publications, refer below, including ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range).
*[https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14604 Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka] Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. Includes images.
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030223/plus/10.html "Rubber, rain and rat snakes"] by Michael Speer c 2003 sundaytimes.lk The author was born in Ceylon in 1938 and after the war, from 1946, his father managed rubber plantations, as a PD (periadurai or "big master") until the family left in 1959.
*Photographs: [http://www.imagesofceylon.com/cover.htm Images of Ceylon]
====Planters, the Planting and Other Industries====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his Cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847. Google Books and Hathi TrustHathiTrust. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 under a slightly different title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Planter to his Cousin in London''] Google Books. (Print quality is poorer in the latter version). [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024456963.0x000001 British Library digital file] Same underlying file, but print may be clearer. [https://archive.org/details/life-in-the-jungle/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version of BL file].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA191 "Ceylon. Coffee Planting"] page 191 ''Supplement (No.I) to the Eight Report from the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting''. British Parliamentary Papers. Reports 1847-8. Seventeenth Volume –Part IV. Also called Volume 23, Part 4. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PR3 Index]. Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NZteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Coffee-planting in Ceylon''] by Aliquis [Stewart Jolly] 1861 Google Books. Verses
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org Ceylon, [[Malaysia|Malaya]], [[Indonesia|Java]], Sumatra
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2024706 ''Rubber-Planter's Notebook''] by Frank Braham 1911. Pdf download KrishiKosh, Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Full title: ''The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the field''. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org
*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers. A trainee planter was known as a Creeper.
*''A Creeper in Ceylon'' by C V Warren [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/413/mode/2up ''Part 1''] and [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/431/mode/2up ''Part 2''] pages 413-420 and pages 431-436 ''The Wide World Magazine. Volume 62 1928-1929 November-April''. Archive.org. The author worked on tea estates.
*Online publications of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, in addition to ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range) are available on [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
: From the same website, under Publications and Articles /Other Publications are many miscellaneous titles, mainly relating to tea and rubber, including
