Dealing with the design of paraffin lamps and his visit to the North of England.
Mainly concerned with experiments; the Chemical Society with notes of meeting; experiments and production at Bathgate; and list of equipment to be ordered with costs.
List of daily tasks, stock of paraffin, details of contracts and books for the laboratory.
Containing records of shift working and experiments, especially with treatments of natural fibres.
'Chamber book' endorsed on inside cover. Notes about plant installations, earth borings for chimney foundations and list of scientific equipment required. Accounts and diagrams.
Informing her of his decision to leave Thomas Graham and work for Messrs James Muspratts.
Gives Playfair details of an experiment which has proved James Young correct. Asks Playfair to deal with the patent and pass on his best wishes to his London friends.
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard, 1811-1899, chemistRequesting Young to investigate the chemical composition of bone manure and informing him that the stannate of soda process may not be accepted in France by the customs.
Requesting a sample of caustic potash and its price.
Hofmann, August Wilhelm, Von, 1818-1892, chemistRegarding the stannate patent in America.
Giving details of Young’s American patent for 'Improvements in the manufacture of Stannate of Soda or Potash'.
Regarding the French patent, company accounts and Mercer’s Case.
Enclosing balance sheets for January to July 1852 (not extant). Discussing stannate business.
Regarding the balance sheets and commercial success of the stannate process.
Tennants strongly deny that they wish to change the division of profit between Young and themselves in regard to the production of stannate of soda.