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*[https://archive.org/details/sirroberthartrom00bred/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sir Robert Hart, the romance of a great career''] by his niece Juliet Bredon 1909. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/iginpekingletter0002hart ''The I.G. in Peking : letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907, Volume Two'' [1891-1907<nowiki>]</nowiki>] edited by John King Fairbank, Katherine Frost Bruner, Elizabeth Macleod Matheson 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Volume One does not appear to be available online currently (2021/05).
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000006732996?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''In the Chinese Customs Service : a Personal Record of Forty-Seven Years''] by Paul King 1924 HathiTrust Digital Library. He commenced in 1874 and retired October 1920, most of it spent in China, but some years were in the London office, including from 1914. He had issues with the Inspector General Robert Hart, who did not regard King favourably.
:''China: The Maritime Customs. IV- Service Series, No 69. Documents illustrative of the Origin, Development, and Activities of the Chinese Customs Service''. Published at Shanghai by the Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs.
: Volumes I-V ''Inspector General's Circulars'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206919/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vol. I: 1861-1892''] 1937; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206920 ''Vol. II 1893 to 1910''] 1938;[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206918 ''Vol. III 1911 to 1923''] 1938; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206921 ''Vol. IV 1924 to 1931''] 1939; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206922 ''Vol. V 1932 to 1938''] 1939; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206923 ''Vol. VI Despatches, Letters, Memoranda etc 1842 to 1901''] 1938; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206274 ''Vol. VII Despatches, Letters, Memoranda etc Index''] 1940 including [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206274/page/n425/mode/2up "Index"], page 413. Note catalogued title varies. All Archive.org, mirror versions from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n11 ''Houseboat Days in China''] by J. O. P. Bland illustrated by W D Straight 1909. With a [https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n311/mode/1up Map of Country near Shanghai] digital page 312. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Otway_Percy_Bland John Otway Percy Bland] (Wikipedia) was a British writer and journalist, who lived in China for most of the period 1883–1910.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023611381 ''Sport and Travel in the Far East''] by J C Grew 1910 Archive.org. The travel occurred in 1902-1903. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grew Joseph Grew] Wikipedia. He became an American diplomat, and from 1932-1941 was Ambassador to Japan.
