Papers of W. K. Clifford

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
9a Letter from G. Croom Robertson to Frederick Pollock Item 7 May 1879
1 Letter from J. J. Sylvester to Frederick Pollock Item 7 Apr. 1876
3 Letter from Henry Jackson to Frederick Pollock Item 31 Mar. 1878
7 Sheet of blotting paper Item c. 1880
9 Leaf from The Echo, probably kept for the sake of a letter on atheism Item 15 Jan. 1880
12a Note from Macmillan & Co. Item 24 Nov. 1879
2 The Daily News Item 6 Mar. 1879
6 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art Item 15 Mar. 1879
3 Albumen cabinet card of W. K. Clifford by Barraud & Jerrard, 96 Gloucester Place, Portman Square (London) Item 1873 x 1879
8 Albumen carte-de-visite of W. K. Clifford by W. & A. H. Fry (3 copies) Item 1870s
10 Miniature photographic image of W. K. Clifford on a metal plate Item 1870s
11b Letter from Ellen M. Watson to Lucy Clifford Item 1879?
11c Albumen carte-de-visite of a woman (perhaps Lucy Clifford) by Window & Grove, 63A Baker Street, Portman Square, London, W. Item 1879?
2 Letter from J. J. Sylvester to W. K. Clifford Item 9 Aug. 1878
3 Letter from Lord Haldane to Lucy Clifford Item 22 June 1921
4 Letter from Lord Haldane to Lucy Clifford Item 10 Aug. 1923
2a Paper entitled ‘Of Boundaries in General' Item 1869
5a Introduction to a paper ‘On Mr Spottiswoode’s Contact Problems’, communicated to the Royal Society by W. Spottiswoode Item c. 19 June 1873
6 Historical table of scientists, perhaps compiled in connection with Clifford’s lectures on ‘The General Features of the History of Science’ Item 1875?
8 Part of a paper (‘The Ethics of Belief’) Item 1876
9 Copy of a letter from W. K. Clifford to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette (Frederick Greenwood) Item late 1870s
4 Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article by Dr Maurice Davies entitled ‘The Bishop of Manchester at the East End’, including an account of a sermon by the Bishop (James Fraser) in response to W. K. Clifford’s article ‘The Unseen Universe’ Item 7 June 1875
6 Notes (possibly a draft syllabus for a lecture) beginning ‘Importance of establishing connections between different branches of scientific enquiry …’ Item 1870s
19 Transcripts of two passages from The Principles of Science, by W. Stanley Jevons, referring to P. G. Tait’s Thermodynamics Item 1874?
32 Leaves from the Pall Mall Gazette, used as a wrapper by Lucy Clifford and marked by her ‘Letters & bits of writing of W. K. Clifford—very precious.’ Item 2 Jan. 1882
2 Untitled short story Item 1869 x 1879
6 Syllabus for a series of four lectures (‘The General Features of the History of Science’) Item Feb. 1876
9 Notes for ‘The Men of the Return’, Lecture IV (in the series ‘The General Features of the History of Science’) Item c. Mar. 1876
10 Printed syllabus for Lectures II-IV of ‘The General Features of the History of Science’, 6-20 Mar. 1876 Item Mar. 1876
13 Partial draft of a paper entitled ‘On the Respect which is due to Opinions’ Item 1870s