The main manuscript sources for McDougall's life and mission may be found in Rhodes House Library (an offshoot of the Bodleian Library) at Oxford under the labels CLR72, CLR73, and CLS54 (USPG letters). Other family letters are in the Turner Papers, MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.292; the offcial Rajah Brooke papers are under heading MSS.Pac.s.90. Twenty-six of McDougall's original hand-written sermons are also at Rhodes House (not cataloged).
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BunyonJohnCharles. Memoirs of Francis Thomas McDougall … sometime bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, and of Harriette, his wife, by her brother. London: Longmans, Green, 1889.
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DraperJonathanA., ed. The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications; London: T. & T. Clark, 2003.
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EdwardsDavidA.“A Study in Paradox: Some Contradictions in Anglican Attitudes to Mission in the Mid-nineteenth Century as Embodied in the Life of Francis T. McDougall and His Work in the Borneo Mission.”Ph.D. diss., Edinburgh University, 1998.
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GuyJeff. The Heretic: A Study of the Life of John William Colenso, 1814–1883. Pietermaritzburg: Univ. of Natal Press, 1983.
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McDougallHarriette. Letters from Sarawak, Addressed to a Child. London: Grant & Griffiths, 1854.
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McDougallHarriette. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak. London: SPCK, 1882.
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SaintMax. A Flourish for the Bishop; and, Brooke's Friend Grant: Two Studies in Sarawak History, 1848–68. Braunton, Eng.: Merlin Books, 1985.
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SaundersGrahamE.Bishops and Brookes: The Anglican Mission and the Brooke Raj in Sarawak, 1848–1941. Singapore: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.
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VarneyPeterD.“The Anglican Church in Sarawak from 1848 to 1852.”Sarawak Museum Journal, n.s., 16, nos. 32–33 (July–December 1968): 377–406.