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*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500675/2015.500675.Bengal-Past#page/n189/mode/2up "Extracts from the Diary of Emily, wife of John Talbot Shakespear, Bengal Civil Service" [June- July 1814<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 133 ''Bengal, Past and Present'', Volume VI, July-September 1910. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty Years in the East With Revelations of Life in the Zenana'' by Fanny Parkes [Parks] (sometimes seen as Fanny Parkes Parlby). [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg01parluoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg02parluoft Volume II] 1850 Archive.org. She came to India in 1822 with her husband Charles Crawford Parks, a civil servant, appointed a Writer in 1816. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview35 "Lady of the Raj"] by William Dalrymple 10 June 2007 ''The Guardian''. [http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/fanny-parks-case-study/ "Fanny Parks (1794-1875): her ‘Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan’, her Museum, and her Cabinet of Curiosities"] by Joanna Goldsworthy. Case study from ''East India Company At Home, 1757-1857''.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldencalmengl00bayl ''The Golden calm : an English lady's life in Moghul Delhi : Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and her father Sir Thomas Metcalfe''] Edited by M M Kaye 1980. Archive.org Lending Library. Sir Thomas was in India from 1813 and was Delhi Resident at the time of his death in 1853 from poison. Emily joined her father in Delhi in 1848 at the age of 17, and two years later married Sir Edward Clive Bayley, then Under-Secretary to the Foreign Department. With a chapter by M M Kaye from page 21, with many of her comments throughout. With beautiful illustrations of paintings by native Company artists working to Sir Thomas’s commission. Incorporating parts/all? of ''Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi'' by Sir Thomas Metcalfe 1842-44, images from which are also available online by [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html Searching the British Library Online Gallery] using Metcalfe and his book title as search words.
*[http://archive.org/stream/fiftysevensomeac00keenrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts during the Revolt of the Bengal Army''] by Henry George Keene 1883 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R24BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''How I won the Victoria Cross''] by Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Commissioner in Oudh, 1860 Google Books
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