Printed booklet including two maps printed on tissue paper.
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.
Regarding a fire at William’s Kerosene Oil Works in America. Source unknown.
Regarding court proceedings.
Regarding the previous week’s court proceedings for the Torbanehill coal case, p. 8.
Newspaper cuttings from Manchester Guardian 1 March 1845 and 1 September 1851; Falkirk Herald 9 September 1852; Illustrated London News 31 May 1857.
Newspaper cuttings reporting miscellaneous current events, legal cases in the oil industry, news of Dr Livingstone, oil manufacture and trade, explosive coal oils and paraffin lamps, Young’s paraffin oil patent, The Royal Institution and The International Exhibition in 1862.