Newspaper cuttings from Manchester Guardian 1 March 1845 and 1 September 1851; Falkirk Herald 9 September 1852; Illustrated London News 31 May 1857.
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.
Photograph taken by James Mudd, Manchester. In envelope stamped Kelly, Wemyss Bay by Greenock, home of James Young.
Bound Patent Office Reports belonging to James Young.
Publication by Pall Mall Press in 1959 on James Young.
2 copies, second copy donated by Stirlingshire County Library, 1971.
Edward Binney & Company versus the Clydesdale Chemical Company, from 1-7 November 1860, for the infringement of patent for the manufacture of paraffin oil and paraffin from bituminous coal.
With regard to the suits against the Columbian Oil Company and Glendon Oil Company and the contracts with Mr Downer and the Portland Company, New York. 19 March 1860.
With extract from ‘Dumas’ Volume 1 p. 419.