- Jan T. Jasion. "A.J." and the Introduction of the Baha'i Faith into Poland (1978-12). On the earliest mentions of the Bábí Faith in Polish, and the writings of Aleksander Walerian Jablonowski, a well-known historian and linguist who met Babis in Baghdad in 1870.
- Jan T. Jasion, comp. Báb, The: Newspaper Articles and Other Publications 1845-1859 (2019-12-26). List of 1490 articles from newspapers, books, and journals referencing The Báb and the Bábís, from Europe, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand.
- Moojan Momen. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts (1981). A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í religions in contemporaneous accounts and newspapers.
- Early Mention of Bábís in Western Newspapers, Summer 1850 (1850). Very brief newspaper mentions about the rise of the Bábí movement: Tioga Eagle (Wellsborough, Pennsylvania) 1850-08-21; Church and State Gazette (Middlesex, London) 1850-07-19; Nevada State Journal 1871-12-23.
- Moojan Momen. Early Western Accounts of the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths (1995).
- Steven Kolins, comp. First newspaper story of the events of the Bábí Faith (2013). Six versions of the first public mentions in English of the Bábís, from November 1845.
- Bahá'í Information Office of the UK. First Public Mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the West (1998). Short essay based on research by Moojan Momen and Derek Cockshutt. The first mention for the Faith in the West was not in 1893, but rather in a number of earlier talks on the Faith in England, and reports on the Babis in the 1850s.
- Mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths in the New York Times 1852 - 1922 (1852-1922). 45 articles and brief mentions, spanning 70 years.
- Austin Wright. (Report to the) American Oriental Society / A New Prophet (1851-06-14). First paper on Bábí history, from a letter to the American Oriental Society, published in multiple newspapers, including translation into German. Includes preface by Steven Kolins.
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