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*[http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2031%20No%204%20-%201942%281%29.pdf "Periodicals and Newspapers in Ceylon"] ''Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume XXXI No 4 April 1942, page 137-152. thedutchburgherunion.org.
*[http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/browse?type=author&value=Fernando%2C+C.+N.+V. Articles on Christianity and Christian Missions in Ceylon] by C. N. V. Fernando from ''University of Ceylon Review'' 1948-1951. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of University of Peradeniya.
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, including Ceylon, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication], ; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877], ; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/555073632.pdf 1879] pdf from Oxford University Library, may be slow to open, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879 Google Books edition] should become freely available 2020; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881], ; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889], ; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901], ; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902], ; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903], ; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1922 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]
: In addition, ''Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''Colonial Office List, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-directories-and-almanacs "Britain, Directories & Almanacs"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs.
:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
====Personal accounts====
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsonfootth00haafgoog ''Travels on Foot through the Island of Ceylon''] [in 1783] by J. Haafner (Jacob), 1821. Translated from the Dutch. Archive.org.
