Mainly concerned with his work at Bathgate; obtaining witnesses for patent litigation; household expenses.
Endorsed on inside cover, 'James Young, Murrayfield, Edinburgh'. Details of experiments at Bathgate and expenses of visits to Scotland, Wales and France. Also weekly expense account for production at Bathgate.
Endorsed on inside cover, 'James Young, Messrs Tennants Clow & Co, Manchester'. List of expenses and details of experiments.
Endorsed- 'J Young, Longsight Terrace, Manchester'.
Experiments with paraffin and burning oil; list of expenses and orders for paraffin; payments to Edward Meldrum and accounts at the bank.
Very few entries. Details of an experiment, and a receipt from Manchester Flint Glass Works.
Concerning American patents and Edward Binney’s uncertainty over James Young going to America.
Concerning American patents. Also, James Young denies suggesting seriously a move to America.
Pages 1-18 have been torn from this volume, and all the remaining pages are unused.
Letter of introduction for A.D. Bache, President of Girard College, Philadelphia, to James Young.
Sin títuloInforms Campbel of 'a college which is to be started near London' and that 'the chemical chair is not yet filled'. Written on the reverse of the ‘Synopsis of the course of instruction at the College of Civil Engineers’.
Concerning the dyestuffs process.
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.
Sin títuloConcerning a patent.
Concerning a letter which Young has received from Robinson dealing with patents.