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- The voyage of the Jeannette Vol. 1 (1883) - Emma De Long - based on De Long's journals - covers up to end August 1880
- The voyage of the Jeannette Vol. 2 (1884) - Emma De Long - from September 1880
- De Long's Ice Diaries - Hand written journal from 11th June (when they abandonned ship) to 30th October 1881. Transcribed from 5th - 30th Oct.
- The Private Journal of James Markham Ambler
- James Ambler's Atmospheric Observations - the Doctor's hand written journal
- In the Lena Delta (1885) - George Melville
- Lieutenant Danenhower's narrative of the Jeannette (1882)
- The Ill-Fated Jeannette - Commodore Melville Retells the Story of the Expedition 'A Highly Interesting Session of the Commercial Club' (1896).
- Proceedings of a court of inquiry into loss of the Jeannette (1882)
- A Lengthy Deployment: The Jeannette Expedition in Arctic Waters as Described in Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Navy, 1880-1884.
- History of the adventurous voyage and terrible shipwreck of the U. S. steamer Jeannette (1882) - Henry Williams
- Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long (1888) - Raymond Newcomb - includes chapters of the search for Jeannette by Corwin and Rodgers
- Ice-pack and tundra: an account of the search for the Jeannette and a sledge journey through Siberia (1883) - William H. Gilder
- The Jeanette and a complete and authentic narrative encyclopedia of all voyages and expeditions to the North Polar regions (1882) - Capt. Richard Perry
- Hell On Ice The Saga of the Jeannette (1938) - Edward Ellsberg
- Orson Welles Mercury theatre adaptation of Hell on Ice
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences June 6th 1881 - reception given to the captain and officers of the Jeannette Search Expedition in steamer Rodgers
- Early migrations : Arctic drift and ocean currents (1884) - Charles Brooks - includes discovery on an ice-floe of relics from the Jeannette (page 8 onwards). (But see NY Evening Post article below!)
- In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014) - Hampton Sides
Jeannette Bibliography - any with on line copies included above
- List of articles from New York Herald
- The Stark County Democrat., July 10, 1879 - Setting off on voyage (Bottom right hand corner of page)
- Daily Alta California, 9 July 1879 - Setting off on voyage
- Daily Alta California, 16 August 1879 - On the voyage (Page 2 column 3)
- The Somerset herald. (Somerset, Pa.) December 28, 1881 - Reports of the survivors reaching the Lena Delta (Columns 3 - 5)
- NY Evening Post Feb 18, 1896 - Were the relics found on ice floe faked?