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*[https://archive.org/details/cornwallisimperi0000wick ''Cornwallis, the Imperial Years''] by Franklin and Mary Wickwire 1980. Archive.org Lending Library. The 2nd book on his life by the authors. Cornwallis was Governor General 12 September 1786 to 28 October 1793 and reappointed 30 July 1805 until he died 5 October 1805.
*''The life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe: late governor-general of India, governor of Jamaica, and governor-general of Canada, from unpublished letters and journals preserved by himself, his family, and his friends'' by John William Kaye 1854. [https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden01metcuoft/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden02metcuoft/page/n6 Volume II] Archive.org. (20 March 1835 to 4 March 1836).
:[https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharleslor0000thom/page/n7 ''The life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe''] by Edward John Thompson 1937 Archive.org Lending Library. Also available [http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3449 Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi<nowiki>]</nowiki> Digital Repository version], and [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6166/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=JkQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 '''Up the country': letters written to her sister from the upper provinces of India''] by Hon. Emily Eden 2nd Edition 1867 (contains what in some editions are 2 separate volumes) Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/details/LettersFromIndiaVolI ''Letters From India Vol-I''] and [http://www.archive.org/details/LettersFromIndiaVolII ''Letters From India Vol-II''] by Hon Emily Eden 1872 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/administrationm00forrgoog ''The Administration of the Marquis of Lansdowne as Viceroy and Governor-general of India, 1888-1894''] by George W Forrest 1894 Archive.org
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746893?urlappend=%3Bseq=277 Private Secretary to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India] [from 1888] page 233 ''The life of Major-General Sir John Ardagh, by his wife Susan, Countess of Malmesbury (Lady Ardagh)'' 1908 HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176323/page/n3 ''Lord Lansdowne: a Biography''] by Lord Newton 1929. Archive.org. Also available [http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3427 Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi<nowiki>]</nowiki> Digital Repository] and [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3427/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/fishingfleethusb0000deco/page/152 "The Viceroy’s Daughter. Elizabeth Bruce"] page 153 ''The Fishing Fleet : Husband-Hunting in the Raj'' by Anne De Courcy 2013 edition, first published 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Daughter of the Earl of Elgin, she was sixteen and a half (born September 1877) when she arrived in January 1894 and commenced comprehensive diaries. She married in India in September 1898.
*''Speeches of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor General of India'' [https://archive.org/details/speeches00curzgoog ''[Volume I<nowiki>]</nowiki>: 1898-1901''], [https://archive.org/details/speeches01curzgoog ''Volume II: 1900-1902''] Archive.org. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Curzon,_1st_Marquess_Curzon_of_Kedleston Lord Curzon] was in this position 1899-1905.
