Detailed day by day accounts of jobs done in his father’s business, education, leisure and early interest in science.
Contains a few chemical notes.
Entitled 'Apparatus used in Class'. Lecture course in Natural Philosophy with apparatus used. Entries about scientific meeting at the back.
Chemical notes.
Account of visit to Dublin for the British Association. List of expenses and notes on meetings of scientific groups in Glasgow.
Lists of materials.
Household expenses.
Details about customers, suppliers, plant and experimental production, payments to Young by Tennants, Clow and Co.
With enclosures: a memo, receipt and note relating to bleaching liquid; a letter from James L. Gibb, 1844.
Household expenses.
Endorsed inside cover, ‘James Young, Alkali Cottage, Newton’.
Addresses, expenses and receipt for a coffin, scale of operations, receipt of mineral raw materials and details of production and stocks of equipment.
First mention of paraffin; James Young’s interest in the chemistry of dyestuffs, with the experiments carried out; addresses; accounts of production; list of garden seeds and plants to be bought; and list of his children’s birthdates.
Mainly dealing with expenses and accounts. Also accounts of experiments in the chemistry of dyestuffs. List of the names and birthdates of his children.
Personal affairs; cost of plant and equipment; wage bill; profits at St Rollox; experiments; and payment to Edward Meldrum.