During the nineteenth century the American economy was able to expand rapidly due to the availability of cheap and plentiful supplies of coal. This primary resource collection covers all aspects of this important energy source through a selection of letters, pamphlets, industry reports and newspaper articles. This first volume, covering the pe

Volume 1 General Introduction, Coal and the New Nation, 1790-1835 General Introduction Introduction Selected Letters from the Papers of Henry Heth, 1800-20 Selections from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petition Files, 1824-36 Cadwallader D. Colden, Jeremiah F. Randolph and Hector Craig, Observations on the Intended Application of the North-American Coal & Mining Company, to the Legislature of the State of New-York. February, 1814 (1814) Rhode Island Coal Company, Observations on the Rhode Island Coal, and Certificates with Regard to its Qualities, Value, and Various Uses (1814) [Jacob Cist], Lehigh Coal. Certificates fr om a Number of Persons, Shewing the Use and Value of the Lehigh Stone Coal. With Some Prefatory Remarks (1815) [Cadwalader Evans], Address of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, to the Stockholders, and to the Publick in General (1817) John Grammer, Jr, 'Account of the Coal Mines in the Vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, Communicated to the Editor in a Letter from Mr. John Grammer, Jun.', American Journal of Science (1819) Lackawaxen Coal Mine and Navigation Company, Address to the Public by the Lackawaxen Coal Mine and Navigation Company, Relative to the Proposed Canal fr om the Hudson to the Head Waters of the Lackawaxan River. Accompanied by Documents (1824) North American Coal Company, A Brief Sketch of the Property Belonging to the North American Coal Company, with Some General Remarks on the Subject of Coal and Coal Mines (1827) Erskine Hazard, History of the Introduction of Anthracite Coal into Philadelphia and a Letter from Jesse Fell, Esq. of Wilksbarre, on the Discovery and First Use of Anthracite in the Valley of Wyoming (1827) The Morris Canal's War of Words 'A Stockholder of the Morris Canal', Letter to John Wurtz, Esq. with Case and Opinion ([1831]) 159'A Stockholder of the Morris Canal', A Review by a Stockholder of the Morris Canal, of the 'Views of a Stockholder, in Relation to the Delaware and Hudso