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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-fSSmAEACAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Last Year in China, to the Peace of Nanking: as Sketched in Letters to His Friends, by a Field Officer, Actively Employed in that Country: With a Few Concluding Remarks on Our Past and Future Policy in China''] 2nd edition, revised 1843 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=I3rgHp7A0sEC&pg=PR3 Original edition 1843] Google Books
*''Narrative of the Expedition to China from the Commencement of the War to its Termination in 1842: with sketches of the manners and customs of that singular and hitherto almost unknown country'' by J Elliot Bingham RN 1843 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QGY_AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR5-IA2 Volume 1, 2nd Edition with Additions], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Dmg_AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 2, 2nd Edition with Additions]
*''Narrative of a voyage round the world : performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841'' by Captain Sir Edward Belcher RN 1843. ([https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvoyag01belc Volume I],) [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvoyag02belc/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] including [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvoyag02belc/page/128/mode/2up Orders to proceed to China] page 129, Volume II. Archive.org.
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/b21298051/page/n5 ''Medical Notes on China''] by John Wilson, Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets. 1846 Archive.org. The "Minden", a seventy-two-gun ship was fitted out as a floating hospital and despatched to China in 1842.
