British Library, India Record Office, London (BL, IRO)
In General Correspondence of the East India Company:
Correspondence from Bengal to London, 1832–1833, E/4/138–144
Correspondence from Madras to London 1832, E/4/364–365
Correspondence from Bombay to London 1832–1833, E/4/516–519
Correspondence from London to Bengal 1832, E/4/735
Liverpool Record Office (LRO)
Newspapers and registers:
Liverpool Mercury, 1845; 1854 (in microfilm)
Liverpool Street Directories 1818; or Gore’s Directory of Liverpool and Its Environs, Containing an alphabetical list of the Merchants, Traders and Principal Inhabitants, also lists of the Mayor and Council, officers of the Customs and Excise, Dock duties and Commissions, Post Office and Pilots’ rates and regulations, Bankers, Trading vessels, Stage and Hackney coaches, carriers, Annal of Liverpool, etc. Liverpool, printed by J. Gore, Castle Street, 1818. (in microfilm)
Business Records:
Accounts and papers of Henry Eld Symons, of Kirkdale. 1857–1858 (South America–Liverpool); and 1857 (Australia & New Zealand–Liverpool). 380 MD.
Other primary sources:
The American Chamber of Commerce in Liverpool. Minute Books and Memorials. 1801–1842: 380 AME / 1; 1842–1866: 380 AME/2.
Merseyside Maritime Museum Archives, Liverpool (MMM)
Guides to the records:
Littler, Dawn. Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume II. St. John’s, 1999.
Newspapers and registers:
Liverpool Customs Bills of Entry, 1824; 1834–1835 (in microfilm)
Lloyd’s List, 1766–1826 (in reprint); 1827–1875 (in microfilm)
Lloyd’s Register (for Shipowners / for Underwriters), 1766–1875
Business records:
Bryson Collection:
Correspondence of Daniel Williams, 1854–1872 (South America–Liverpool), DB/175.
Correspondence of Sandbach, Tinne & Co., 1825–1870 (West Indies–Liverpool), DB/176.
Earle Family and Business Archive:
Correspondence of Thomas and William Earle & Co., 1836–1870 (West Indies–Liverpool), D/Earle 5/1–11.
Business Records of Fraser, Trenholm & Co.:
Correspondence of C.K. Prioleau & Co., 1870–1875 (telegrams), B/FT.
Records of the Ocean Steamship Co.:
‘Directions to Capt. Middleton when sailing to China with the Agamemnon on her first voyage April 19th 1866’. Blue Funnel, Ocean Steamship Co. OA 2583.
Holt, Alfred. Review of the Progress of Steam Shipping during the last Quarter of a Century, and the following discussion. Institute of Civil Engineers. Minutes of Proceedings, vol. 51, Liverpool 1877. OA/2086.
University of Liverpool, Sydney Jones Library Archives (SJ)
Printed records:
British Parliamentary Papers (BPP). Printed in the Irish University Series, Shannon, 1968–1971:
BPP, Transport and Communications. Post and Telegraphs, 1, First and Third Reports from the Select Committee on Postage together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, Part I, 1838.
BPP, Transport and Communications. Post and Telegraphs, 2, Second Report from the Select Committee on Postage together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, 1838.
BPP, Shipping Safety, 3. First and Second Reports from the Select Committee on Shipwrecks with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, 1843.
BPP, Colonies. East India 2, Third and Fourth Reports from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company with Appendices, 1810–12.
BPP, Colonies, East India 3, The Fifth Report from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company, 1812.
BPP, Colonies. East India 8. Appendix to the Report from Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company with an Index (II Finance and Accounts), Part II Commercial, 1831–32.
BPP, Colonies. West Indies 1, Report from the Select Committee on West India Colonies, together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, 1842.
BPP, Colonies. West Indies 2, Select Committee Reports and Correspondence on the Trade and Commerce of the West Indies with Minutes of Evidence Appendixes and Index, 1806–49.
BPP, Crime and Punishment Transportation, 2. Report from the Select Committee on Transportation together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, 1837.
Business records:
Correspondence of Rathbone Bros & Co., 1841–1870 (North Atlantic); and 1854–1872 (South America), RP XXIV.2.
Cunard Papers (CP), 1838 –
Miscellaneous papers; Cunard Passage Books 1848–1881.
Other printed documents
Pamphlets, speeches:
Ross, Sir John. On Communication to India, in Large Steam-Ships, by the Cape of Good Hope. Printed by Order of the India Steam Ship Company, 1838.
Speech of Mr. Edson B. Olds, of Ohio [Chairman of Committee on Post Office and Post Roads]. On the Collins Line of Steamers. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 15, 1855. Washington 1855.
Circulars:
‘Coal from Liverpool, Birkenhead or Garston’, in Boult, English & Brandon’s Freight Circular, Liverpool 6.6.1863. (SRLC)
Directories, maps, statistics:
Allan, Morton. Directory of European Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the Years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore. Baltimore 1998.
Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas, London, 1964.
Maddison, Angus. Monitoring the World Economy 1820–1992. OECD Development Centre Studies, Paris, 1995.
Mitchell, B.R. International Historical Statistics. Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750–1988. Second Revised Edition. New York, 1995.
Private philatelic collections
Merchant correspondence:
Frederick Huth & Co., London, 1836–1850. In JAC, SRLC, JSC, STC, RWC (see below)
Miscellaneous merchant correspondence in the following collections:
Arnell, J.C. Transatlantic Stampless Mail to and from the United States of America (1986), (JAC)
Hongisto, Heikki. Sugar in the Life of Mankind (2005), (HHC)
Laakso, Seija-Riitta. Development of Transatlantic Mail Services from Sail to Steam, (2005), (SRLC)
Snellman, Johan. North Atlantic Mail (2005), (JSC)
Talvio, Seppo. North Atlantic Mail (2006), (STC)
Winter, Richard. Transatlantic Mails (Steamship) (1988), (RWC)
Philatelic auction catalogues:
Charles G. Firby Auctions, British North America Stamps and Postal History. Dr. Kennethy M. Rosenfeld Collection, June 18, 2005. Waterford, MI, 2005.
Printed sources with important postal historical sailing data
Arnell, J.C. Atlantic Mails. A history of the mail service between Great Britain and Canada to 1889. The National Postal Museum, Canada. Ottawa, 1980.
Arnell, J.C. & Ludington, M.H. The Bermuda Packet Mails and the Halifax–Bermuda Mail Service 1806 to 1886. The Postal History Society. Great Britain, 1989.
Howat, Rev. J.N.T. South American Packets. The British packet service to Brazil, the River Plate, the west coast (via the Straits of Magellan) and the Falkland Islands, 1808–80. The Postal History Society. York, England, 1984.
Hubbard, Walter & Winter, Richard F. North Atlantic Mail Sailings 1840–75. U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, Inc., Ohio, 1988.
Kenton, Phil J. & Parsons, Harry G. Early Routing of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1842–1879. The Postal History Society. Surrey, England, 1999.
Kirk, Reg. Australian Mails via Suez 1852 to 1926. The Postal History Society, Kent, 1989.
Kirk, Reg. The P&O Bombay & Australian Lines 1852–1914. British Maritime Postal History, Vol 1.
Kirk, Reg. The P&O Lines to the Far East. British Maritime Postal History, Vol 2.
Kirk, Reg. The Postal History of the P&O service to the Peninsula. Royal Philatelic Society London, 1987.
Lee Scamp C. Far East Mail Ship Itineraries. British, Indian, French, American, and Japanese Mail Ship Schedules 1840–1880. Volume I, Texas, 1997.
Proud, Hector. The British Sea Post Offices in the East. British Maritime Postal History. Volume 4. East Sussex, 2003.
Salles, Raymond. La poste maritime française. Historique et catalogue. Tome I. Les entrées maritimes depuis 1760 et les bateaux à vapeur depuis 1833. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1992.
Salles, Raymond. La poste maritime française. Historique et catalogue. Tome II. Les paquebots de la Méditerranée de 1837 à 1935. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1992.
Salles, Raymond. La poste maritime française. Historique et catalogue. Tome III. Les paquebots de l’Atlantique Sud. Brésil–Plata de 1860 à 1939. Cote occidentale d’Afrique de 1889 à 1939. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1992.
Salles, Raymond. La poste maritime française. Historique et catalogue. Tome IV. Les paquebots de l’Atlantique Nord. Antilles–Amérique Centrale et Pacifique Sud, États-Unis. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1992.
Salles, Raymond. La poste maritime française. Historique et catalogue. Tome V. Les paquebots de l’Extrème-Orient. Saigon–Hong Kong–Shanghai–Yokohama–Kobe. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1993.
Salles, Raymond. La Poste Maritime Francaise, Historique et catalogue. Tome VII, Index Alphabétique des Cachets Postaux et Marques Maritimes, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1993.
Tabeart, Colin. Admiralty Mediterranean Steam Packets 1830 to 1857. Limassol, Cyprus, 2002.
Tabeart, Colin. Australia New Zealand UK Mails to 1880. Rates Routes and Ships Out and Home. Fareham, 2004.
Tabeart, Colin. Robertson Revisited. A study of the maritime postal markings of the British Isles based on the work of Alan W. Robertson. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1997.
Wierenga, Theron J. (Winter, Richard F. ed.). United States Incoming Steamship Mail, 1847–75. US Philatelic Classics Society, 2000.
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