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==FIBIS resources==
*[httphttps://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=343 FIBIS database: Mussoorie: Camel’s Back and Landour Cemeteries] transcriptions and images of all legible headstones in 2017, photographed by Mr Rajat Sharma, part of the [https://searchwww.fibis.org/frontisabout-2/cemeteries/cemeteries-project/ FIBIS Cemetery Project] where photographs were commissioned by FIBIS, and are available for a modest donation/fee.*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=974&s_id=294 FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers: Mussoorie Stokes School Ledger 1866-1899]*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/search/338 Images of Mussoorie in FIBIS Gallery]
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Category:Mussoorie_images Images of Mussoorie in Fibiwiki]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussoorie Mussoorie] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landour Landour] Wikipedia
*[httphttps://www.cblandour.org.in/about-us/History.html Landour Cantonment Board: History]
*[http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/st-pauls-church-is-a-jewel-in-mussoories-crown.html "St. Paul’s Church is a Jewel in Mussoorie’s Crown"] by Jaskiran Chopra 13 October 2013 '' The Pioneer''
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhami/5283956729/in/gallery-23268776@N03-72157629027065985/ Photograph: St Pauls Church, Landour Cantonment] flickr.com
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160414061415/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071130/asp/opinion/story_8605045.asp "City Of Grey Hair And Green Hedges": The Doon Valley Across The Years] by Subhrojit Dutta November 30, 2007 ''The Telegraph, Calcutta'', now an archived webpage.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180203050146/http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com:80/may10/article8.htm Hill Station's newspapers] by Ganesh Saili. Article about Mussoorie’s newspapers and Guides. May-June 2010 allaboutnewspapers.com , now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110316/dplus.htm#10 Mussoorie Library: A testimony to colonial past still stands tall in town] by Ajay Ramola March 16, 2011 ''The Tribune''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203084529/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/article3641338.ece "Mussoorie blues"] by Rakhshanda Jalil, July 15, 2012, thehindu.com, now an archived webpage. Includes mention of Eugenie Catherine West (d. 1895). She was the first superintendent of the Christian Training School and Orphanage that was to later transform into the Wynberg Homes and finally the Wynberg Allen School as it is now called.
*[http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/does-frederick-young-sound-familiar-to-mussoorie-residents.html "Does Frederick Young Sound Familiar To Mussoorie Residents?"] by Jaskiran Chopra 25 May 2014 ''The Pioneer''. Army Officer Frederick Young built a hunting lodge in Mussoorie in 1823, leading to the establishment of a convalescent depot for British soldiers at Landour in 1827.
*[http://www.cntraveller.in/story/a-to-do-list-for-landour/ "A to-do list for Landour"] by Anurag Mallick January 29, 2016 cntraveller.in
*[http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/140-american-boyhood-british-india "An American Boyhood in British India"] by Stanley E Brush, born 1925. indiaofthepast.org. The author attended Woodstock School.
*[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1950s/1219-locksley01.html "Memoirs of an IAF Technical Signals Officer - 1"] bharat-rakshak.com. Locksley Percival Fegredo was born in 1926 and was at St. Georges College, run by the Irish Patrician Brothers from 1938 to 1944.
*[http://scroll.in/article/812971/the-ghosts-of-the-savoy-the-mussoorie-murder-mystery-that-inspired-agatha-christies-first-novel "The ghosts of the Savoy: The Mussoorie murder mystery that inspired Agatha Christie’s first novel"] by Arup K Chatterjee 3 August 2016 Scroll.in. Mussoorie’s Savoy Hotel, on the road to Happy Valley, built on the site of Reverend Maddock’s Mussoorie School in 1902.
:[https://www.dailypioneer.com/2016/vivacity/murder-at-savoy.html "Murder at Savoy"] by Anupma Khanna 7 January 2016 ''The Pioneer''
*[https://www.paperjewels.org/postcard/rickshaw-mussoorie-dandy-mussoorie Postcard: Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie] paperjewels.org. "A very unusual early split-screen postcard", by Julian Rust, undated.
:[https://www.paperjewels.org/postcard/kulri-bazaar-mussoorie Postcard: Kulri Bazaar, Mussoorie] catalogued Clifton & Co. Bombay c 1910. paperjewels.org.
====Maps====
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h05FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7 Mussoorie] page 7 ''A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas: With Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere‬'' Edited by Mountaineer [Frederick Wilson] 1860 Google Books
*Mussoorie and [[Dehra Dun]] are mentioned in [http://books.google.com/books?id=b60IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA424 "Himalayan Holidays I and II]" from page 424 ''Bombay Miscellany (Chesson & Woodhall’s), Volume I''. November 1860- April 1861. Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA309 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Landour"] by Ludovic C Stewart, Staff Surgeon Major, page 309 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books:[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/378/mode/2up Landour] page 378 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org*''The Himalayan Gazetteer or the Himalayan Districts of the North Western Province of India'' by Edwin T Atkinson in 3 Volumes (6 Parts) originally published 1882, 1884, 1886 is available, in a reprint edition, at Archive.org, mirror editions from Digital Library of India. Covers the regions of Kumaon and Garhwal. See [[Gazetteers]] for all volumes.:*Mussooree appears in Volume 3, Part 2, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95854/page/n235 page 597 (digital page 236)] Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa01rossgoog#page/n269/mode/2up A description of Masuri and Landaur], ''The Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive'', page 260 by David Ross 1883 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1884-guide-to-masuri-landaur-dehra-dun-and-hills-north-of-dehra-by-northam-s-pdf ''Guide to Masuri, Landaur, Dehra Dun and Hills North of Dehra''] by John Northam 1884. Pdf download Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
:*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/woodstock/writings/guideToMussoorie1908Notes.html Notes on the ''Guide to Mussoorie''] by Philip McEldowney ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131121042013/http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/woodstock/writings/guideToMussoorie1908Notes.html archive.org link])
:'''Restricted access'''. The complete version of this book appears to be available to those in North America on [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5-YwAQAAMAAJ Google Books] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011260708 Hathi Trust Digital Library] websites
*[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/page/118 Mussoorie] page 119 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India'' by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked in India 1941-46.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YYXNIzbhySIC&pg=PA21 Mussoorie] page 21 ''All the Way To Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas''‬ by Stephen Alter, (born 1956) originally published 1998. Google Books, sample pages only.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=raQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA406 "Extract of a Report on the Medicinal Garden at Mussoorea, addressed to the Honorable Sir C. Metcalfe, Bart, in charge of the Honorable Company's Botanic Garden, Calcutta"] by J. F. Royle, Esq. ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta Volume 4 1829'', page 406
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA309 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Landour"] by Ludovic C Stewart, Staff Surgeon Major, page 309 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*''The Himalayan Gazetteer or the Himalayan Districts of the North Western Province of India'' by Edwin T Atkinson in 3 Volumes (6 Parts) originally published 1882, 1884, 1886 is available, in a reprint edition, to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Covers the regions of Kumaon and Garhwal. Volume 1, part 1 Contents computer page 12; Volume 1, part 2 Contents cp 12, Index cp 536; Volume 2, part 1 Contents cp18; Volume 2, part 2 Contents cp 16 Index cp 458, includes History of the British in the area; Volume 3, part 1 Contents cp 10 Place names A-J; Volume 3, part 2 Contents cp 8 Place names K-Z.
:Pdf downloads: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/95851 Vol. 1, Part 1] [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/97345 Vol. 1, Part 2] [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/95852 Vol. 2, Part 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/96527 Vol. 2, Part 2], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/95853 Vol. 3, Part 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/95854 Vol. 3, Part 2]. Additional files are available for Volume 3.
:*Mussooree appears in Volume 3, Part 2, computer page 236.
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