Papers of W. K. Clifford

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A9 Letters from Lucy Clifford to Frederick Pollock about W. K. Clifford, with a sketch File 1877-81
1 Notebook containing notes by W. K. Clifford on Coleoptera fabriciana, reused by Lucy Clifford as a scrapbook for obituary notices of her husband, reviews of his posthumous publications, etc. Item 1870s-80
2 The National Reformer Item 26 Sept. 1880
3 Cutting from The Examiner, containing what appears to be the conclusion of an obituary of W. K. Clifford Item c. 1879
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
3 The Athenaeum Item 8 Mar. 1879
5 The Academy Item 15 Mar. 1879
7 The Jewish World Item 21 Mar. 1879
1 Exercise book, containing notes, essays, etc., in W. K. Clifford’s hand Item c. 1865
2 Exercise book, containing notes, essays, etc., in W. K. Clifford’s hand Item c. 1866
2 Albumen carte-de-visite of a man (perhaps William Clifford) by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, 54 Cheapside and 110 and 108 Regent Street Item 1866 x 1878?
9 Albumen carte-de-visite of W. K. Clifford by Portbury & Co. Item 1870s
10 Miniature photographic image of W. K. Clifford on a metal plate Item 1870s
11a Letter from Ellen M. Watson to Lucy Clifford Item 16 Sept. 1879
3 Paper entitled ‘On Theories of the Physical Forces’ Item 1870
5b Part of a paper ‘On Mr Spottiswoode’s Contact Problems’ Item c. June 1873
7 Part of a monograph (corresponding to The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences, pp. 12-32) Item 1875
1 Proof of a handbill for a lecture by W. K. Clifford entitled ‘The First and the Last Catastrophe; a criticism on some recent speculations about the duration of the universe’, to be read before the Sunday Lecture Society on 12 April 1874, including a syllabus of the lecture Item 30 Mar. 1874
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
21 Draft syllabus of Clifford’s paper ‘The Ethics of Belief’ Item 1876?
31 Extract from Through Scylla and Charybdis, by George Tyrell (1907), possibly in the hand of Margaret Clifford Item c. 1907
4 Part of a draft syllabus for a paper (‘On the Relations between Science and Some Modern Poetry’) Item 1873
12a-b Two partial drafts of a paper entitled ‘The Return of the Golden Age’ or ‘Can the Golden Age Return?’ Item 1870s
1 Draft rules of the Cambridge Republican Club, etc., in the hand of W. K. Clifford Item c. Nov. 1870
6 Extract from the minutes of the Senate of University College, London, 19 Mar. 1879, expressing sympathy to Mrs Clifford on the death of her husband, signed by George Young, chairman Item c. 19 Mar. 1879
7a-b Printed prospectus of the Clifford Testimonial Fund (2 copies) Item 1879
8 Certificate of the marriage of William Kingdon Clifford and Sophia Lucy Jane Lane on 7 Apr. 1875 Item 30 Jan. 1880
2 Printed pamphlet entitled Atoms, being the text of a lecture delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society on 7 Jan. 1872 and in the Hulme Town Hall, Manchester, on 20 Nov. 1872 Item 1872
6 Corrected galley proofs of an article entitled ‘The Ethics of Belief’, being the text of a lecture to be read before the Metaphysical Society on 11 Apr. 1876 Item 1876?