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.
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.
Bound Patent Office Reports belonging to James Young.
Pages 1-52 are missing.
Regarding the balance sheets and commercial success of the stannate process.