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Informing Binney that he has received a letter from Edward Meldrum with a proposed advertisement.

Copying a letter from Benedict and Boardman at New York to Edward Binney at Manchester (15 July 1859) regarding Young’s American patent and the prospect of legal action against the New York Columbian Oil Company.
Also includes a note from James Young to Edward Binney acknowledging receipt of this letter, 3 August 1859.

Concerning the purchase price of petroleum.

Copy from wet press letter book.

Copying a letter from James Rose at Edinburgh to Edward Binney at Manchester (5 September 1859) concerning legal action against the Clydesdale Company.

Letter regarding the railways and grease made by Edward Binney and Company. Letter has been extensively altered.

Regarding grease and railways.

Concerning Edward Binney’s marriage.

Copying 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.

Discussing a coal contract. Includes an answer from Edward Meldrum.

Copying a letter from Benedict and Boardman at New York to Binney (25 November 1859) dealing with the American patent.

Manuscript list submitted to Young’s attorneys Benedict and Boardman in New York by the defendants’ attorneys, Birdseye, Sommers and Johnston relating to an unidentified legal case.

Twenty-second (1844-1845), twenty-eighth (1850-1851), thirty-third (1855-1856) annual reports missing.

Plan of Panama.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.