Advising Young to drop the French patent for stannate.
Expenses on continental visit and experiments at Bathgate. (Many entries have been deleted and some pages have been torn out.)
Asking Young to return balance sheet.
Pages 1-52 are missing.
Regarding the balance sheets and commercial success of the stannate process.
Tennants strongly deny that they wish to change the division of profit between Young and themselves in regard to the production of stannate of soda.
Hyde’s Carbon suit. Details of the case which is to be heard on 27 June 1854. Names of witnesses to be summoned and evidence to be supplied.
Binney, Edward William, 1812-1881, geologist and philanthropistConcerning dispositions and a proposed meeting between Young and himself in Glasgow.
Meldrum, Edward, fl. 1850-1859, chemistCopy letter. Legal matters concerned with the building of cottages in Bathgate. Both Young and Edward Binney mentioned in letter.
Meldrum, Edward, fl. 1850-1859, chemistEndorsed, 'James Young, Murrayfield, Edinburgh'. Personal affairs; interest in preserving eggs; itemised accounts for business and household.
With enclosures; two newspaper cuttings, a receipt and a note in Young’s hand.
Business and personal news.
Graham, Thomas, 1805-1869, chemistCircular notifying members of meeting to be held in Glasgow. Printed.