Endorsed on inside cover, 'James Young, Messrs Tennants Clow & Co, Manchester'. List of expenses and details of experiments.
Respecting the Asphaltum Mine at Hillsborough, in the county of Albert and Province of New Brunswick. Printed pamphlet with map of Asphaltum Mine included.
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.
Lyon Playfair has told Dent of Young’s mineral oil and he would like a sample.
Printed booklet including two maps printed on tissue paper.
Printed copy of patent letter.
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.
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 previous week’s court proceedings for the Torbanehill coal case, p. 8.
Regarding court proceedings.
Mainly concerned with his work at Bathgate; obtaining witnesses for patent litigation; household expenses.