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====Historical books online====
*''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 Trust. [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).
*[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://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/222/mode/2up "Gampola and the Coffee Regions"] page 222 ''Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume II'' by Sir James Emerson Tennent 4th edition, thoroughly revised 1860. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/n261/mode/1up Map of Coffee Estates] which requires strong magnification. Additional versions of the same map [http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de%2Fitems%2FOU3XZDEXKDCEQK5BRSGHQSDAXEEOVKCN%2Fsource&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=257&tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&cHash=6f7d2008dc9ab7311e5a14ac69f24de9 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek], [http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN669705136&DMDID=DMDLOG_0016 Staatsbibliothek Berlin]
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WBYAAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=coffe+southern+india#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''A Handbook to coffee planting in Southern India''] by John Shortt (1864). Particularly useful for its list of coffee planters on the Shevaroy and Niligiri Hills and descriptions of these estates (pages 164-176) Google Books
