1. Sam Laidacker, Anglo-American China, Part II: During the Period from 1815 to 1860 (Bristol, Penn.: Privately published, 1951). 2. A. W. Coysh and R. K. Henrywood, Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery, 1780–1880 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, Eng.: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1982), p. 108. 3. Laidacker, Anglo-American China, p. 111. 4. Alvin Wortham, “Staffordshire and the Baltimore & Ohio,” American Collector (December 1939): 463. 5. Ellouise Baker Larsen, American Historical Views on Staffordshire China, 3rd ed. (New York: Dover Publications, 1975), p, 236. 6. Matthew Smith Letter Book, Collection of the Historical Society of Maryland. It is thought that the views depicted on the Wood wares are actually of the Hetton Collier Tramway, in England. 7. Friends of Blue Bulletin 38 (winter 1982–1983): 12. 8. Sale, Dreweatt Neat, Donnington Priory, England, September 19, 2003, lot 284. 9. Sale, Dreweatt Neat, Donnington Priory, England, September 19, 2003, lot 138. 10. “. . . a most excellent assortment of dark blue, printed, painted and other descriptions of earthenware, suited for the American markets, in which markets the deceased carried on extensive dealings.” Staffordshire Advertiser, February 21, 1829, Riley factory sale notice.