Signed admission tickets for James Young with maps of the host city including:
Dublin 1835;
Glasgow 1840;
Manchester 1842;
Oxford 1847;
Birmingham 1849;
Edinburgh 1850;
Ipswich 1851;
Liverpool 1854;
James Young and Edward Meldrum’s tickets for Glasgow 1855;
Aberdeen 1859;
Associate and Member’s ticket for Newcastle 1863;
Dundee 1867.
Endorsed with notes by Miss A Thom. Both photographs include handwritten notes on reverse side by Miss Thom accounting the relevance of the images to James Young.
Photocopy of manuscript volume by Robert Wright of the 1869-1870 diary with transcript by Mrs Hamilton.
Includes related correspondence with Miss A Thom.
3 versions of draft specifications.
Affidavits by James Young; by Joseph Ashton, James Hurst, George Railton, John Johnston, Sir Robert Kane, William Sullivan, Frederick Penny, Thomas Richardson, Robert Warrington, John Stenhouse, Theophilus Redwood, Robert Hunt, Robert Thomson, William Odling, Edward Frankland, Henry Letheby, William Collett Hamersham and Astley Paston Price; by Frederick Penny, Sir Robert Kane, Lyon Playfair, William Sullivan and Robert Hunt; by J. Braithwaite, William Brande, Alfred Swaine, Dugald Campbell and William Miller; by William Collett Hamersham.
The last page is written on the back of a Mechanics Institution of Manchester Fifth Polytechnic Exhibition, Christmas 1844-1845 season ticket for James Young.
With extract from ‘Dumas’ Volume 1 p. 419.