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* Drummers are mentioned in this [http://books.google.com/books?id=88UoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 link] published 1838 Google Books
*Diet of the boys in 1863 [http://books.google.com/books?id=2xm1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA401 page 401] Google books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA5-PA1 PA61 1864-1865 Report] Google Books. This report is in the middle of a volume of reports relating to the Civil Asylums.
*In June 1865, the Gun Carriage Manufactory at Madras was made available for the instruction of the pupils of the MMOA, and other similar Educational establishments, in trades and the use of machinery, the number under instruction being limited, experimentally, to twenty. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vUQbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89 Google Books]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=9ZhJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA143 Page 143] of ''Six Months in India'' by Mary Carpenter, educational and social reformer who visited India in 1866. Google Books
*Amalgamation with the [[Lawrence Military Asylum|Lawrence Asylum]] was considered from 1860. In April 1864 the land at Lovedale, near [[Ootacamund]], was selected for the combined institutions and new buildings were constructed. 220 boys from the MMMOA moved in September 1871 [http://books.google.com/books?id=luXS-8vTrJQC&pg=PA262 Limited View Google Books] ''The Nilgiris,Volume 1 of Madras district gazetteers'' by W Francis (1994) reprint of an earlier book, probably 1908.
*Another mention of the transfer to the Lawrence Asylum, Lovedale in September 1871 [http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA11RA1-PA13 PA65 Google Books]
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-05/1209973186 post] indicates that records for the Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum for 1829-1833 were held by the [[Lawrence Military Asylum|Lawrence Asylum]] in 1892. The document mentioned may be viewed here on [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_picture&id=514&s_id=31 FIBIS Search].
