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*''Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes'' ‬ by Major Archer, late Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere 1833 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PF5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hzxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
*''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''.
*''The Adventures of a Lady in Tartary, Thibet, China, and Kashmir. ... With an account of the Journey from the Punjab to Bombay overland. ... Also an account of the Mahableshwur and Neilgherry Mountains, etc.'' by Mrs Hervey 1853. The Himalayan part of the journey took place March, 1850 to October, 1851. In three volumes:
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VA7R0u934qMC&pg=PP6 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=k0B3IYKuQb8C&pg=PP7 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5TvAodQe500C&pg=PP7 Volume III] Google Books
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B90 Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B96 Volume II], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B9C Volume III] British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
: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/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.
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