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Old and sorted requests

With pagescans (not cited in enwiki)

• The World's Famous Orations
• Studies in Neurology (two volumes), collaborative work, inc. W. H. R. Rivers (External scan)(External scan) - the other authors need to be investigated before copyright can be established, but in the very least it is {{PD-1923}} and can be uploaded to Wikisource. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
• The Cutters Practical Guide
• A Voyage to Terra Australis in 2 vols., by Matthew Flinders (External scan)(External scan) Definitely {{PD-old}} -- billinghurst (talk) 01:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

  Actually those archive.org lists do not contain page scans. Hesperian 11:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

• Acts of the UK Parliament and Explanatory Notes legislation.gov.uk
• The Memoirs Of Babur by Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (External scan) (1921 public domain translation)
• The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (1960) (External scan) — This book is listed by Internet Archive as being in the public domain and I am waiting ffrom them a status clarification. It was published in the Soviet Union in 1960, but was originally written in Paris France in 1927. Ineuw (talk) 03:23, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
• The Journal of Christopher Columbus (published in English in 1893) by Clements R. Markham (External scan)
• Code v2 by Lawrence Lessig, under {{CC-BY-SA}}; Full text at Official website or Official Wiki
• Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, vols. 1-22, 1888-1938.
  • vol. 01 (1890)
  • vol. 02 (1891)
  • vol. 03 (1893)
  • vol. 04 (1895)
  • vol. 06 (1899)
  • vol. 07 (1901)
  • vol. 08 (1903)
  • vol. 09 (1905)
  • vol. 10 (1907)
• The Postage Stamps of the United States by John N. Luff (External scan); published New York: Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Ltd., c1902, c1897. 417 pages.
• The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffrey(External scan)(External scan), do as match and split
• The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria/Volume 1 by Ferdinand von Mueller (External scan)
• Early History of the Colony of Victoria by Francis Peter Labillière (External scan)

  only volume 2 of 2 available — billinghurst sDrewth

Google Books (and others) scans of works thought to be PD (cited in enwiki)

• Prentice, Archibald (1853). History of the Anti-corn-law League This is now on Wikisource, here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Index:History_of_the_Anti_corn_law_league.pdf
• "Obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine" (1855). The Gentleman's Magazine: 208. F. Jefferies. 
• "The greyhound" (November 1832 – April 1833). New Sporting Magazine 4: 5. Retrieved on 2008-02-21. 
• "(various artilcles)" (1853). The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 
• Arrian, William Dansey (1831). On coursing. J. Bohn, 108. 
• Carlile, James (1823). The Old Doctrine of Faith Asserted in Opposition to Certain Modern Innovations. London: F. Westley. 
• Carlile, James (1823). The Old Doctrine of Faith Asserted in Opposition to Certain Modern Innovations. F. Westley (London). 
• Church, A. H. (1905). Precious stones considered in their artistic and scientific relations with a catalogue of the Townshend Collection. His Majesty's Stationery Office, p129. 
• Charles Dickens;William Harrison Ainsworth;Smith, Albert;George Cruikshank; Hablot Knight Browne (1841). "Bentley's Miscellany". Bentley's Miscellany 9. Richard Bentley. 
• Ford, Richard (1855). A Handbook for Travellers in Spain(Part 1)of the 3rd edition. J. Murray.  Essentially covers the South.
• Ford, Richard (1855). A Handbook for Travellers in Spain(Part II) of the 3rd edition. J. Murray.  Essentially covers the North.
• William Forster, Benjamin Seebohn (1865). Memoirs of William Forster: In Two Volumes. A. W. Bennett. 
• Martin, Frederick (1865). The life of John Clare. Macmillan. 
• Pitman, E.R., Elizabeth Fry
• Guthkelch, Adolph (1914). The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison. G. Bell and sons, ltd..  contains Cato, a Tragedy (1712), a play and the "most famous work of fiction" * by Joseph Addison
• (1894) The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Warne.  Contains The Dunciad (1728), by Alexander Pope
• Martin, Sir Theodore (1881). The Works of Horace, Vol. 1. Blackwood.  and Martin, Sir Theodore (1881). The Works of Horace, Vol. 2. Blackwood.  contain the translated works of the Roman lyrical poet Horace, especially his Odes and Ars Poetica (there appears to have been a translation made by Alexander Pope)
• She Would Be a Soldier, w:Mordecai Manuel Noah's most successful play, it would be desirable to do an OCR from Google Books (this appears to be the only existence of the text online)
• Curtin, Jeremiah (translator) (1902). The Pharaoh and the Priest: an Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt. Little, Brown and Company.  page scans of translation from Polish of Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
• Pigafetta, Antonio (1874). The First Voyage Round the World. Hakluyt Society.  source text scans for Report on the First Voyage Around the World (it:Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, 1524)
• R.U.R. by Karel Capek (English translation) - 1920 Czech original has been cleared by Gutenberg; 1923-published (though performed onstage in 1922) standard English version by Paul Selver (Czech translator) and w:Nigel Playfair (theatre manager), with substantial changes in plot, does not appear in a superficial online copyright renewal search, and is published by "Dover Thrift Editions", a public domain book imprint. There could possibly be issues with automatic renewal because Playfair was a British citizen. Online text-PDF of 1923 English translation. We apparently once had a page at R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots); I'm not sure what its content was and why exactly it was deleted. User:Prosfilaes has scans of the 1923 US edition.
• Rockhill, William (trans.) (1900). The Journey of William of Rubruck. Hakluyt Society. 
• Longinus (1st century). Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime. F. C. and J. Rivington. 
• Hugo, Victor (1842). The Rhine. Payot, Upham.  w
• Holland, Thomas Erskine (1885). The European Concert in the Eastern Question. Oxford Clarendon Press.  contains Treaty of San Stefano

  Mostly done at The European Concert in the Eastern Question; the scan is missing two pages. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

• Walker, William (1860). The War in Nicaragua. New York: S.H. Goetzel.  William Walker
• The Mechanical Theory of Heat – with its Applications to the Steam Engine and to Physical Properties of Bodies by Clausius, 1865 to 1867 depending on whom you ask. PD due to age; if you ever get around to do it, please seed Wikipedia with appropriate links, we appreciate it. No existing online version found, only an excerpt, on a lifestyle-related new-age thing that I don't really trust. pick your edition
• The History and Practice of Aerostation by Tiberius Cavallo (London, 1785) Google edition here
• The Code of the Bushido (also known as The Code of the Samurai). According to this 1907 GoogleBook, the Bushido Code is not a written code. But the same book is definitely a PD work about Bushido.
• The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, published 1874 by Author:Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919), and any other material (poems, etc.) he wrote - See also w:Benjamin_Paul_Blood — available at archive.org
• Cheskian anthology - Anthology of Czech poetry, translated and edited in year 1832 by w:Sir John Bowring found archive.org
• The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1828) by w:Jane C. Loudon. Volume I is available here, I will look for the other two volumes.
• State ex rel Weiss v. District Board, aka w:Edgerton Bible Case. [1] and [2]. has copies embedded in larger journals.

books.google.co.uk

Cited in enwiki

• University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF), Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. Retrieved on 2008-10-01. 
• Burke, Bernad (1858). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain. London: Harrison.  - NB eneiwki cite refers to a later version not online as pagescans in UK.
• (1885) Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine. Richard Bentley and sons. 
• http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x4F6W5Twd9cC&q=%22sons+of+the+thames+regatta%22&dq=%22sons+of+the+thames+regatta%22&ei=OSRdSLy_I5WQjgGT8dm-Dw
• "Obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine" (1855). The Gentleman's Magazine: 208. F. Jefferies. 
• Buckle, H.T. (1861). History of Civilization in England. Appleton & Co.. Retrieved on 2008-07-09. 
• Castillo, John (1843). Awd Isaac, The steeple chase, and other poems, with a glossary of the Yorkshire dialect. Horne & Richardson, p8. Retrieved on 2008-08-05. 
• "Miscellanies - Greece" (pdf) (1824). The American Monitor 1: 538. Retrieved on 2008-03-27. 

as External Links from enwiki

• Nature's first issue
• Arthur, Murphy (1786). "The works of Arthur Murphy Vol1. T. Cadell.  - NB This indicates at least 7 Volumes.
• Some Reflections on the Importance of a Religious Life: offered to younger members of the Society of Friends, 1834, 37pp, Society of Friends.
• Castillo, John (1850). The Bard of the Dales. John Hughes,W.T Lumley and all Booksellers. 

Without pagescans but cited in enwiki

Some of these have pagescans so a sort out would be appreciated:

• http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/bfhstbc.htm The Beaconite Controversy], Anna Braithwaite Thomas, 1912 - URL given notes - Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society, (Philadelphia) Vol. IV, no. 2 (Third Month, 1912,) pages 70-81 (which is pre 1924)
• http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/proslav/prar170akt.html Mrs Stowe in England], "Daily Despatch", Richmond, 3 May 1853
• Edward Lear poem inline of w:John Cropper (fixed Victuallers (talk) 17:58, 21 November 2009 (UTC))
• NY Times Article cited in - w:Josiah Forster New York Times, 6 April 1862
• (1855) Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine. Richard Bently and Sons.
• Project Gutenberg A short biography written in 1917 by G. K. Chesterton
• http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=27019&geotype=London&gpn=6375&type=ArchivedIssuePage&all=&exact=&atleast=&similar= - London Gazette: no. 27019, page 6375, 1 November 1898. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.- If Bridgmen applies to archived text :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:18, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
• Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Henry Somerset Beaufort, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1888). "Boating", The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes 29. Longmans, Green, 298.

• Edwin Dampier Brickwood (1868). The Rowing calendar and aquatic register. <Unknown>, p125.
• Ross, R., and MacGregor, W. (Jan 1903). "The Fight against Malaria: An Industrial Necessity for Our African Colonies". Journal of the Royal African Society 2 (6): 149–160. 
• http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/JamesNasmythEngineerAnAutobiography/chap17.html James Nasmyth, Autobiography (1885)]
• Memoir of the late Charles Baird, esq., of St Petersburg, and of his son, the late Francis Baird, esq., of St. Petersburg and 4, Queens Gate, London (London, 1867)

• Mary Steel poem cited in w:Robert Falcon Scott; two different modern books about the expedition, as well as the Wikipedia article, quote just the last stanza. Originally printed in Daily Mail 14 February 1913, and Daily Chronicle 13 February 1913.
• The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson (2005), cited in w:William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 2005, which is late enough to be out of copyright, since Hodgson died in 1918.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:50, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
• The works of Author:Charles Spurgeon — online archives listed on author page.
• Septuagint (see w:Septuagint, very historically important ancient Greek Bible translation, with significant differences from the common text), see 1851 Brenton translation into English — online archives listed in enwiki article.
• The Rambler (1750-52) by Samuel Johnson (Partial text at Project Gutenberg)
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (w), http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/, http://www.hazegray.org/
• Every Man in His Humour, 1598 comedy play by Ben Jonson (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Giphantie by Author:Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche, published in English in 1761 — this work not listed at Internet Archive as of January 26, 2010.
• Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich (c.1393) (wikipedia articles, available at [3])
• Thoughts are Things by Printice Mulford — rare book
• Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, Owen Chase (published 1821) — this work not listed at Internet Archive as of January 29, 2010.
• January 31 Bush-Blair memo — this was classified correspondence leaked to a newspaper, and thus unlikely to be found in its original form
• The Tale of Genji (w) — not listed or volume withdrawn from Interet Archive.
• John J. Pershing speeches -> have a look at search john pershing — only lists one 25-second speech which is described as "long for him". This can be added, but otherwise another obscure request.
• Encyclopédie, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (that is, "Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts" w) (in French on the French Wikisource) (English translation) — There are two online projects bringing translations of this work to the web. Presumably a translation does not yet exist.

Works exist at Wikisource — candidates for addition of pagescans

Where pagescans can be identified to pair with existing works, and files to be loaded to Commons:. Following upload:

• Index file should be marked Ready for Match and Split
• main namespace work should have {{Migrate to djvu}} added

Works underway will have the Index: page converted from a redlink.

Available pagescan	Local version	Link to Commons	Index: page
The Secret Adversary	The Secret Adversary	Commons:File:The Secret Adversary.djvu	Index:The Secret Adversary.djvu
Pudd'nhead Wilson	Pudd'nhead Wilson	Commons:File:Pudd'nhead Wilson.djvu (1894)	Index:Pudd'nhead Wilson.djvu

Unsorted

• Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) novel by Zane Grey, several DjVu scans found at the Internet Archive
• The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (pub. posthum. 1702-1704) by w:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
• "A Letter concerning Enthusiasm" (1707? 1708?) by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
• "A Satyr Against Mankind" (1675) by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
• The poems of Samuel Boyce (18th c.), such as [4]
• Theodosius, or the Force of Love (1680) play by Nathaniel Lee
• The Adventures of David Simple (1744) by Sarah Fielding
• The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville
• Moralia by Plutarch, translated from Latin (Wikipedia)

1. Moralia translated by Philemon Holland

2. Comparative tables of contents.

Does this suit your needs? -Zyephyrus (talk) 09:02, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

• Census results from around the world
• The Statesman by Sir Henry Taylor available at The Statesman]
• Peace of Augsburg, 1555 treaty
• Peace of Westphalia, 1648 treaty (refers to the pair of treaties, the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück),
• Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (The original Russian is already available)
• John Dickenson. Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
• Charles I - His Speech from the Scaffold -- http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html
• Geneva Bible-http://bible.christiansunite.com/genindex.shtml
• Philately in a nutshell, by J.H. Smyth, L. of Congress number 83196129, Sydney, 1911, 110 pages
• The Primary Chronicles (Kievan Rus)
• Swish of the Kris - The Story of the Moros by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com
• Jungle Patrol - The Story of the Philippine Constabulary by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com
• Roman de la Rose, translated from French (Wikipedia)
• The Romaunt of the Rose, in Middle English (Wikipedia) — two possibles 1 & 2
• The Romance of the Rose, Modern English translation of The Romaunt of the Rose
• Who did it? a novel. by Robert Nash Ogden see Publishers Weekly December 17, 1887 p 941, worldcat,and bio online Edition Who did it? a novel--Wright American Fiction Project Indiana University Digital Library Program
• Works by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky‎
• The Virginian by Owen Wister text at PG pagescan
• Leaves from a Russian diary, and thirty years after by w:Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1950) (not renewed)
• /The Epigrams of Martial
• A Political Crime is a book review of A Political Crime: The History of the Great Fraud, an 1886 book that alleges that w:Warren Hayes stole the election...isn't that marvellously interesting? We must find this book and put it online :) StateOfAvon (talk) 02:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
• A survey of English literature, 1780-1880 (volumes 1 - 4) by Oliver Elton. Per WS:PD. Jeepday (talk) 13:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• /The Invasion of the Crimea, table of contents to a desirable work. [Moved from main CYGNIS INSIGNIS 16:22, 10 July 2011 (UTC)]
• Bab Ballads by W.S. Gilbert has been started but is incomplete. A scan of the text and drawings is available in full from the Internet Archive. ----Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 00:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
• Author:Thomas Moore (1779-1852). These quite a lot of books printed during author life-time on Google Books and likely on other projects. His poetry was translated on other languages like Polish and Russian during 19th century. Looks like his works are better represented now in Wikisource on other languages then in original. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 03:13, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
• Romola by George Eliot

Governmental and organizational works

• Project Longshot [5], a research essay from NASA and US Naval Academy.
  • This one is nearly completed over at my sandbox. BaronTaltos (talk) 05:26, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• US government documents regarding the Vela Incident.
• Urantia Foundation v. Michael Foundation, interesting copyright case [6]
• http://www.history.army.mil/books/AMH-V2/AMH%20V2/Prologue.htm (and subsquent chapter) - This work provides a useful summary of US involvement in the Great War, and it would be nice to be able to use it conjunction with other projects discussed at the Scriptorium.
• Official Olympic Reports from 1896 through 1920 (7 reports).
• Rules of procedure of the United Nations General Assembly - particularly relevant to questions of eligibility for UN membership under international law. According to the UN Charter page here, all official UN documents are in the public domain so there shouldn't be any rights issues.
• Gryczan v. State of Montana [7] case overturning sodomy in Montana

Statutes

• Public Health Service Act
• Statute of the International Court of Justice [|International Court of Justice], “Statute of the Court - International Court of Justice”, <http://www.icj-cij.org/documents/index.php?p1=4&p2=2&p3=0>. Retrieved on 2010-01-30(2010-01-30) 

Journal articles

• Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Rod Through the Head

See also

• Wikipedia:Category:Copy to Wikisource where the work would need to be assessed for inclusion.

New speeches

• related portals: Speeches.

• The Speeches of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ed. A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (1902)
• Socialism - Kier Hardie
• Blood and Iron - Otto von Bismarck
• Jeannette Rankin's sole dissenting vote, and the speech that accompanied it, against US participation in WWII
• Any speeches missing at Portal:Speeches by British Prime Ministers
• The Speeches of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ed. A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (1902)
• Socialism - Kier Hardie

New requests

UK Legislation

• UK Statutory Instrument 1957 No. 13 - Traffic Signs And General Directions 1957 - This is an item of secondary legislation which gave the design of UK road signs, the 1957 edition is the last version before the UK's road signs were radically re-designed. It's also coincidentally the most recent version to not be under Crown Copyright.

Not sure of possible sources for scans, but you would need to find a good version as IIRC the original had a lot of diagrams.

I'm requesting this to help resolve a deletion debate at Commons concerning a 'Motorway' Pictogram. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:23, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Railway/Railroad material

I would appreciate someone making a check on the status with a view to inclusion of :

• 1904 Railway Clearing House Atlas of England and Wales. (There is also a post grouping 1935 version)
• The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations, 1912 (This would support the Junction diagrams on Commons.)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Railways Act 1922 Transport Act 1947

Any UK 'Local Acts' relating to railways, especially the railways which eventually amalgamated into the the Great Western and Southern upon grouping or the regions they served. 62.56.112.112 23:10, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Mountain books

I'm trying to improve articles about the pioneer mountaineers. I would appreciate if someone could upload :

• From the Himalaya to Skye from John Norman Collie.

  not available at IA, other works by author at IA and GB

• My climbs in the Alps and Caucasus from Albert F. Mummery. (External scan)

  available at IA, other works by author at IA and GB

Regards. Zil (talk) 16:08, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

New Request

Hi Wikisource! I've been doing research for w:Pisces (astrology) and found this book: (External scan). I see it's not here on Wikisource. After making a short page at Wikiquote, I think that I could make a Zodiac page here, maybe even one for Pisces. Can someone upload this book for me? - Starcartographer (talk) 04:04, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Google won't let me see it. I checked and it is not yet available at archive.org. Someone who can see it will need to load it grab it from Google and move it to IA. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:23, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Google won't let me see it either. I'll ask Ineuw to have a look for us. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:09, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the belated reply. Before posting here, I went through all my current options to get the book, but failed. Google blocks me because my home account is Canadian, even though I am not in Canada at the moment. It is also listed on Open Library, which is a subsidiary of Internet Archive, but they only list the recent 2006-7 publication which is only available for purchase. I will ask someone tomorrow to get it through Google, as the last possibility. — Ineuw talk 02:59, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the index file. I was basing it off of the Featured Text and it seemed like a lot of work to create an image per page. - Starcartographer (talk) 20:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)