Diaries and notebooks; correspondence; patents and legal cases; financial papers; technical and scientific notes; newspaper cuttings; educational and personal items.
Sans titreCopying a letter from Benedict and Boardman at New York to Binney (25 November 1859) dealing with the American patent.
Sans titreConcerning a coal contract and its terms. Postscript discusses a paraffin test.
Sans titreDiscussing a coal contract. Includes an answer from Edward Meldrum.
Note under flap explaining possible delay in mail. (Letter is not extant).
Sans titreRegarding Clydesdale case and American patent.
Sans titreCopying correspondence between Binney and James Russel and Son, colliers, Falkirk and Edward Meldrum, Bathgate, (14 November 1859) concerning the coal contract for the [Boghall] works.
Sans titreCopying letter from Henry Twining at Nova Scotia to Binney (1 November 1859) concerning an infringement of Young’s patent by the New Brunswick Oil Company.
Sans titreConcerning Edward Binney’s marriage.
Regarding grease and railways.
Sans titreCopying correspondence between Binney and James Rose at Edinburgh (4 and 7 November 1859). Concerning the case against the Clydesdale Chemical Company.
Sans titreAffidavits and note.
Photocopy of letter, from original located at the National Library of Scotland. Includes typed transcript.
Household expenses.