TWA journals: T.W. Atkinson, four unpublished travel journals, 1847–53, Royal Geographical Society
TWA correspondence: Dahlquist Collection, Hawaii
–– British Library; includes MSS Murchison Papers Vol.1. Add. 4612572: 74
–– Manchester Central Library (letters to Royal Manchester Institute submitting works for exhibition)
–– Bodleian Library, Oxford
–– Russian State Archive, St Petersburg
Lucy Atkinson correspondence: Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
–– John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Scott, George Gilbert, notebooks, Vol. 2, RIBA
Atkinson, T.W., Gothic Ornaments selected from the different Cathedrals and Churches in England, London, 1829
TWA, O & WS: Atkinson, T.W., Oriental & Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years’ Exploration and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia, London, 1858
–– Reprint of Harper and Brothers edn, New York, 1858, University of Michigan, pb, 2005. No map or colour plates, different pagination
–– Part of Chapter XIX in the Barnaul journal Altai, No. 2, 2012, 131–7
TWA, U & LA: Atkinson, T.W., Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemts, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the hunting and pastoral tribes, London, Hurst & Blackett, 1860. Reprinted Vanguard Books, 1996; University of Michigan, 2008
–– Incorporated Church Building Society (I.C.B.S. plan of St Margaret’s, Bowers Gifford; Society of Antiquaries)
–– The Amoor and the Steppes (Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China; with Adventures among the Mountain Kirghis, and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Goldi, the Gelyaks, the Hunting and Pastoral Tribes. By Thomas Witlam Atkinson, author of ‘Oriental and Western Siberia’. With a Map and numerous Illustrations. Published by Harper and Brothers), Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXI, June–Nov. 1860
–– An Account of an Ascent with the Kirghis through the Mountain Passes to their Summer Pastures at the foot of the snowy peaks the Ac-Tou, Chinese Tartary. Transactions of the Ethnological Society, Vol. I. New Series. London, John Murray, 1861, 93–105
–– La Siberia Oriental y Occidental y la Tartaria China por Tomas Witlam Atkinson. Nuevo Viajero Universal, Madrid, 1860
–– Voyage sur les frontières Russo-Chinoises et dans les steppes de l’Asie Centrale par Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1848–1854), Le Tour du Monde – nouveau journal des voyages, Hachette, Paris, 1863, 337–84
–– Reifen in den Steppen und Hochgebirgen Sibiriens: und der angrenzenden Länder Central-Asiens. Nach Aufzeichnungen von T.W. Atkinson, Ä. Th. v. Middendorff, G. Radde u. A. Bearbeitet von Anton von Etzel und Hermann Wagner. Leipzig, Verlag Otto Spamer, 1864
–– Journey through Siberia and the neighbouring countries of Central Asia. According to descriptions T.W. Atkinson, A.T. von Middendorff, G. Radde et al., ed. A. von Etzel & H. Wagner, St Petersburg, 1865. (Puteshestvie po Sibiri I prilegayushchim k nei stranam tsentralnoi Azii. Po opisaniyam T.U. Atkinsona, A.T. Fon- Middendorfa, G. Radde i dr. Sostavili A. Fon-Etzel, i G. Vagner. Perevod s nemetskogo N. Deppisha, St Petersburg 1865)
Some Heroes of Travel or chapters from the history of Geographical discovery and enterprise. With maps. Compiled and rewritten by the late W.H. Davenport Adams. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1893, 157–228 (re T.W. Atkinson, Oriental and Western Siberia, London, 1858)
LA: Atkinson, Lucy, Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, London, 1863
–– Reprint, Russia Observed series, New York, 1970; Scholar’s Choice, Rochester, NY, 2015
Cross, Anthony, Anglo-Russica (Selected Essays), 1993: ‘The Testament of a Forgotten “Wife”’
–– Introduction to Recollections of Tartar Steppes, vii, citing The Athenaeum No. 3750, 9 September 1899, 341
Fielding, Nick, South to the Great Steppe: The Travels of Thomas and Lucy Atkinson in Eastern Kazakhstan, 1847–1852. London, FIRST Books, 2015
–– ‘Thomas and Lucy Atkinson: pioneering explorers of the steppe’ in Asian Affairs, March 2018
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Hoe, Susanna, Lucy and Thomas Atkinson: Complicated Lives in Russia and Beyond, HOLO Books website, 2014. Chapter 1 updated
–– Travels in Tandem: the Writing of Women and Men Who Travelled Together, Oxford, 2012.
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–– Entry on Atkinson in Ekaterinburg Entsiklopediya, Ekaterinburg, 2002
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–– Alatau Tamchiboulac Atkinson (1848–1906), Feb. 2017. See Fielding blog above
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The Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal, a leading London journal which began in 1837 (the year of Queen Victoria’s accession).
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Complete Yorkshire, Ward Lock Red Guide, London, 1982
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–– Rossiiskaya Federatsiya: Zapadnaya Sibir, Moscow, 1971
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