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- ↑ Bowlby, Ronald (18 June 2004). "A Times man in war-torn China" . The Times . Retrieved 2008-01-03.
- ↑ Bowlby, Thomas William; Bowlby, C.C. (1906). An Account of the Last Mission and Death of Thomas William Bowlby. Privately printed by C.C. Bowlby. p. 126.
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