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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA174 Madras c 1831/1832] page 174 ''The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras'' by Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel 1832 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA179 Page 179] contains a description of coins and weights etc. in use.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA48 ''Travels in South-Eastern Asia...etc''] by Howard Malcolm, 2nd edition (1839) 2 volumes, describes Madras in 1837 in Book 2, Chapter 2 (Google Books).
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfrommadra00maitrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Letters from Madras, during the years 1836-1839''] by A Lady (Mrs Julia Charlotte Maitland] 1846, stated elsewhere to be first published 1843. Archive.org. [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/maitland/madras/madras.html Transcribed edition] digital.library.upenn.edu. A later edition was ''Letters from Madras during the years 1836-1839'' by Julia Maitland ; with introduction, notes and appendices by Alyson Price. 2003. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012046269. See [[Biographies reading list#Autobiography|Biographies reading list]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Maitland Julia Maitland] (Wikipedia), born 1808. At the time she was in in India she was married to James Thomas who was a judge in the Madras Presidency, who died January 1840.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=YrMV0naxUTAC&pg=PA171 ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore''] by Pharoah &Co (1855), detailing Madras (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
