| Besant, Walter | All in a Garden Fair | Chatto & Windus | London | 1885 | | Novel mentioned in Something of Myself, p.65. See also Carrington 1955, p.81. |
| Bowles, G. Stewart | A Gun Room Ditty Box | Cassell & Co. | London | 1898 | | Kiplingesque verse and prose by naval sub-lieutenant. Preface by Lord Charles Beresford. Quoted in 'A Fleet in Being' |
| Brabourne, Lord | Tales at Tea-time | Routledge & Sons | London | | | Fairy stories mentioned in Something of Myself p.7. Illustrated by William Brunton. |
| Culpeper, Nicholas | See Walter H. Pollard. | | | 1930 | | |
| Dumaitre, Paule | René Laënnec 1781-1826 (OS) | College de France | Paris | 1981 | | Revue du Palais de la découverte'. Special edition devoted to bicentennial conference on René Laënnec (1781-1826), the physician who invented the stethoscope and who is mentioned in "Marklake Witches". |
| Ewing, Juliana H. | Mary's Meadow & Letters from a Little Garden | SPCK | London | 1886 | | Quoted in "Fairy Kist" |
| Froude, J.A. | The Two Chiefs of Dunboy | Longmans Green | London | 1889 | | An Irish Romance of the Last Century' mentioned in "A Fleet in Being", p.46. |
| Greenwood, James | King Lion | Ward Lock & Co. | London | | | In 'Beeton's Historical Romances' and also serialised in the 'Boy's Own Paper'. Inspiration for the Jungle Books; see Something of Myself, p.8, Ricketts, 'The Unforgiving Minute' p.26 and the Kipling Journal, Jul.1956, p.4. |
| Haggard, H.Rider | Nada the Lily | Longmans, Green & Co. | London | 1892 | | Novel which gave Kipling the idea for Mowgli (See K's letters to Haggard edited by Cohen). |
| Harris, Joel Chandler | Uncle Remus | George Routledge & Sons | London | 1880 | | Quoted in "The United Idolaters". Illustrated by A.T.Elwes. |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Elsie Venner | Chapman & Hall | London | 1879 | | Novel mentioned in "The Propagation of Knowledge". |
| Keats, John | Works | Fred. Warne & Co. | London | | | Referred to in "Wireless". |
| Laënnec, René | See Paule Dumaitre. | | | 1981 | | |
| Marryat, Captain | Peter Simple | Macmillan & Co. | London | 1895 | | |
| Palgrave, Francis Turner | The Golden Treasury | Oxford University Press | London | 1929 | | Contains 'High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire' by Jean Ingelow, source of title "My Son's Wife". |
| Parish , W D and Helena Hall | A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. | Gardner's of Bexhill | London | 1957 | | An expanded version by Helena Hall of a classic reference work originally published in 1875 |
| Pollard, Walter H. | Nicholas Culpeper - Physician and Astrologer | Birmingham Medical Review | | 1930 | | Paper on Culpeper who figures in "A Doctor of Medicine" and "Wireless". |
| Scott, Sir Walter | The Pirate | Marcus Ward & Co. | London | 1879 | | Mentioned in Something of Myself and "Gow's Watch". |
| Stevenson and Osbourne | The Wrong Box | Longmans Green | London | 1907 | | Quoted in "The Vortex". |
| Surtees, Robert Smith | Handley Cross | Methuen | London | 1947 | | |
| Surtees, Robert Smith | Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour | Bradbury Agnew | London | 1891 | | Quoted in "Stalky" and "My Son's Wife". |
| Weygandt, Anne M. | Kipling's Reading and Its Influence on His Poetry | Univ. of Pennsylvania Press | Philadelphia | 1939 | | |