- Early Believers in the West, Some, by Grace Shahrokh. (1992) Stories of Thornton Chase, John David Bosch, Lua Moore Getsinger, May Ellis Bolles Maxwell, William Sutherland Maxwell, Thomas Breakwell, John Ebenezer Esslemont, George Townshend, and Horace Hotchkiss Holley.
- L'implantation de la foi baha'ie en France: et impact de la venue de Abdu'l Bahá à Paris au début du XXème siècle (The establishment of the Bahá'í Faith in France and the impact of the arrival of Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century), by Natalia Behnam. (2006) French society at the end of the 19th century; Western expansion of the Bahá'í Faith; Abdu'l-Bahá's stays in Paris 1911-1913; religious minorities in France; on meeting Guillaume Apollinaire, Romain Rolland, Auguste Forel, Queen Marie of Romania, et al.
- Life of Thomas Breakwell, The, by Rajwantee Lakshiman-Lepain. (1998) Breakwell (1872–1902) was a religious seeker who became a Bahá'í in Paris in 1901, the first Englishman to become a Bahá'í as well as the first westerner to contribute to the Huqúqu'lláh.
- Mayflowers in the Ville Lumière: The Dawning of Bahá'í History in the European Continent, by Julio Savi. (2011) In intellectual and artistic Paris of the fin de siècle, a young American becomes the catalyst for the spiritual awakening of a group of early believers. The paper examines the mysterious ways through which they came to recognize the dawn of the new era.
- Picture Gallery of Early British Bahá'ís, by Author unknown. (1998) Published in honor of the UK Bahá'í Centenary, 1998/99.
- Who Was Thomas Breakwell?, by Robert Weinberg. (1997-08) Brief biography of the first English Bahá'í and an individual central in early European Bahá'í community.
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