Author:
Joseph Cottle, bookseller and publisher (of "Lyrical Ballads", etc)
Publication details:
Bristol and Fairfield House near Bristol, 1850 and 20 Dec. 1850.
One page and two pages, both 8vo, bifolia, some staining but text clear and complete. In the first letter to which (as he explains in the second letter) he didn't add his name, he says that he visited "your Bovey Coal Pits" as a geologist (!), made observations and concluded that it was a "real Coal district, the current coal mined [an internet site informs me of poor quality] being of a "comparatively recent formation". Real coal was produced in an earlier period.
