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:[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. The Morton identification is confirmed in the 7 August 2022 article [https://exploringtibetvictorianweb.wikischolars.columbiaorg/history/explorers/herveybio.edu/The+Adventures+of+a+Lady+in+Tartaryhtml Juliana Hervey,+Thibet,+China+%26+Kashmir Article about the booknée Morton (1825-1905): A Brief Biography] by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolarsPhoebe Caldwell.columbiavictorianweb.eduorg
*[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.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ‪''Travels from India to England‬, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books‬. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023511470.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been correctly rotated, the latter file digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4BCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to Europe, by Way of Egypt, in the years 1827 and 1828''] by Mrs Charles Lushington [Sarah] 2nd edition 1829. Google Books. [httphttps://www4archive.org/details/journey-calcutta-europe/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. [https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1091 "Sarah Lushington"] from [httphttps://www4btw.wlv.ac.uk/btw/ British Travel Writing]. The author, born 1789, travelled with her husband, Charles Lushington, and the "powerful administrator, traveller, and orientalist Mountstuart Elphinstone".*''Narrative of a Journey Overland from England by the Continent of Europe, Egypt and the Red Sea to India, including a residence there and voyage home, in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 '' by Mrs Colonel Elwood [Anne Katharine] 1830. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vdR-eVGtP8C&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QS2j9S3Z7hcC&pg=PR3 Volume II]. Google Books. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008861179 HathiTrust Digital Library versions], where images can be rotated. [httphttps://www4btw.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1048 Biographical details], British Travel Writing website indicates she was born 1796 and married Charles Elwood 1824.
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan'' by Lieut. Arthur Conolly 1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Adventures During a Journey Overland to India: By Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land'' by Major Skinner 31st Reg. 1836. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fd4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XQ5ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books
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