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Affidavits by James Young; by Joseph Ashton, James Hurst, George Railton, John Johnston, Sir Robert Kane, William Sullivan, Frederick Penny, Thomas Richardson, Robert Warrington, John Stenhouse, Theophilus Redwood, Robert Hunt, Robert Thomson, William Odling, Edward Frankland, Henry Letheby, William Collett Hamersham and Astley Paston Price; by Frederick Penny, Sir Robert Kane, Lyon Playfair, William Sullivan and Robert Hunt; by J. Braithwaite, William Brande, Alfred Swaine, Dugald Campbell and William Miller; by William Collett Hamersham.

Letter of introduction for A.D. Bache, President of Girard College, Philadelphia, to James Young.

Pages 1-52 are missing.

James Young’s signed class tickets for: Chemistry at the Mechanics Class 1830-1831; Anderson’s University 1831-1832; Natural History at the Mechanics Class 1832-1833.

Detailed day by day accounts of jobs done in his father’s business, education, leisure and early interest in science.

Indenture and related memorandum.

Notes on weather, temperature and co-ordinates during voyage.

Printed booklet including two maps printed on tissue paper.

Endorsed inside cover, ‘James Young, Alkali Cottage, Newton’.

Addresses, expenses and receipt for a coffin, scale of operations, receipt of mineral raw materials and details of production and stocks of equipment.

Letter gives dates of the marriage of Young’s parents and the state of trade. Photostat copy of letter.

Dealing with patents and chemical matters.

Legal matters concerning the Clydesdale case. Mentions Mr Clark and Mr Shand.