Includes extract from the will of James Young, 1883.
Photocopy extract.
Photocopy extract from ‘Memoirs and portraits on one hundred Glasgow men’ by John Ferguson, Volume 2, pp. 341-342.
Only one entry on the last page.
Negative photostat
Covering note for an enclosed letter (not extant) concerning an unidentified dispute involving a brother and a friend of the writer.
Playfair, Lyon, 1818-1898, first Baron Playfair, politician and chemistExtensively used. Calculations appear in diary.
Personal letter, thanking Young for the kindness shown to his brother.
Playfair, Lyon, 1818-1898, first Baron Playfair, politician and chemistKept while James Young was in Rome. Descriptions of life in the Mediterranean.
Photocopy extract from an article in ‘Good Words’ by Robert Angus Smith 1875 pp. 141-144, 264-269.
Written while James Young was abroad. Expresses admiration for Garibaldi in Italy, his interest in Art and deals with Egyptian Bonds.
Dealing with Young’s visits to France, Italy and Egypt. Egyptian bonds, the death of David Livingstone, Karnak and Luxor, rock structure of the River Nile, a visit to Palestine and Jerusalem, the possession of David Livingstone’s journals, copy of the letter regarding bringing David Livingstone’s native servants to London and the publication of Thomas Graham’s papers.
Newspaper cuttings including obituary notices of James Young, 1883-1884, a cutting relating to the search for David Livingstone, 1873, and a handwritten draft and a typed version of a poem for James Young by Rachel B. Merrylas.