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* ''Early English Travellers In India'' by Ram Chandra Prasad 1965. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.532468 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/n8/mode/2up ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''] by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/72/mode/2up Letter 18] in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Jemima Kindersley, (1741-1809). Wife of Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemima_Kindersley Jemima Kindersley] Wikipedia.
:[http://travel-letters.org/kindersley/ The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley], transcriptions from the book. travel-letters.org. Note: Only the first page of the letter is displayed, click on the image for a full transcription.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jCBhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards''] by John MacDonald, 1790. Google Books. Pages 154-278 cover the time the author (born 1741) spent In India as a servant c late 1760s/early 1770s. Republished in 1927 under the title ''Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald : Travels (1745-1779)''. [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004857217.0001.000 A transcription] ECCO-TPC umich.edu.
*''A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ...'' by L de Grandpré, an officer in the French Army. 1803. [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0001/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0002/page/n5 Volume II]. Also published with a slightly different title. Archive.org
:Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-1poAAAAMAAJ&q=Hervey+Tartary&dq=Hervey+Tartary&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEq_PanrnRAhXBvrwKHQa3DAE4HhDoAQgeMAE Snippet Search result] from '' ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857''‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books</ref> There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. [https://exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu/The+Adventures+of+a+Lady+in+Tartary,+Thibet,+China+%26+Kashmir Article about the book] by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.72754/page/n5/mode/2up ''Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India"''] by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker, see Preface] 1865. Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000356A0 British Library Digital Collection]. The letters are dated September 1863 to January 1865.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023493517 ''The Roof of the World : being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir''] by Lieutenant-Colonel T E Gordon, Honorary Aide-De-Camp to the Viceroy of India, lately attached to the Special Mission to Kashghar 1876 Archive.org
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