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Box titled W & JH Johnson 47 Lincolns Inn Fields & Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings reporting miscellaneous current events, legal cases in the oil industry, news of Dr Livingstone, oil manufacture and trade, explosive coal oils and paraffin lamps, Young’s paraffin oil patent, The Royal Institution and The International Exhibition in 1862.

Regarding a dispute over the transfer of the [Addiewell] works to the [Young Paraffin] Limited Company. Incomplete.

Endorsed to James Young with respects from the author.

Business and personal entries - replacement of petrol retorts at Addiewell; Livingstone’s trustees; the Anderson’s University; listening to John Bright in the Music Hall and his own health.

Personal and social.

Signed admission tickets for James Young with maps of the host city including:
Dublin 1835;
Glasgow 1840;
Manchester 1842;
Oxford 1847;
Birmingham 1849;
Edinburgh 1850;
Ipswich 1851;
Liverpool 1854;
James Young and Edward Meldrum’s tickets for Glasgow 1855;
Aberdeen 1859;
Associate and Member’s ticket for Newcastle 1863;
Dundee 1867.

Containing notes and statistics relating to Young’s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Ltd. Includes draft minute of agreement between James Young and James Pender and others for the formation of the company, 1865, (with a printed final copy attached); financial analysis of results of operations to 31 March 1866; report on the minerals near Addiewell by Dr Landale, December 1865; notes on joint stock companies involved in the mineral oil industry in Scotland (Airdrie Mineral Oil Co Ltd; Broxburn Shale Oil Co Ltd; Capledrae Oil and Coal Co Ltd; Midcalder Mineral Oil Co Ltd; Glasgow Oil Co. (Broxburn) Ltd; Glentore Mineral Oil Co Ltd; Dalserf Coal Coke and Oil Co Ltd , Monkland Oil Refining Co Ltd; Scottish Oil Co Ltd) giving names of directors, level of capital investments etc; various notes on petroleum and shale production and details of leases of land to Young’s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co Ltd.

Mainly business affairs, visit to Paris Exhibition, education of working men, yachting on the River Clyde, meeting at Anderson’s University, his interest in the gas companies in Glasgow and Edinburgh and his visit to the House of Lords because of the Gillespie vs. Young case.

List of daily tasks, stock of paraffin, details of contracts and books for the laboratory.

Dealing with the purchase of statuary in Edinburgh. Also purifying the smell of burning oil. Playfair conveys his thanks to Young for the gifts to his wife and daughters.