Papers of W. K. Clifford

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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
18 Cutting from a newspaper, containing an obituary notice of W. K. Clifford Item Mar. 1879
19 Printed poem by E. S. J., headed ‘In Memoriam William Kingdon Clifford’, etc., reprinted from the Sunday Review, Apr. 1879 Item [c. Apr. 1879]
3 The Athenaeum Item 8 Mar. 1879
4 The Pall Mall Gazette Item 12 Mar. 1879
8 The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegram Item 22 Mar. 1879
1 Exercise book, containing notes, essays, etc., in W. K. Clifford’s hand Item c. 1865
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?
11a Letter from Ellen M. Watson to Lucy Clifford Item 16 Sept. 1879
1 Sheet headed ‘Preliminary sketch of argument’, in W. K. Clifford’s hand, containing notes on light and electricity Item 1870s
3 Paper entitled ‘On Theories of the Physical Forces’ Item 1870
4c Translation of part of 'The Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans’ Item 1873
9-16 Miscellaneous mathematical notes Item 1870s
22 Beginning of an abortive letter Item 15 Nov. 1877
26-8 Miscellaneous mathematical notes Item 1870s
30 Calling card of Mrs W. K. Clifford Item late 19th c.
4a-b Calling-card of W. K. Clifford (2 copies) Item 1875 x 1879
1 Proof or offprint of pages from the Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, containing the text of a lecture by W. K. Clifford entitled ‘On some of the Conditions of Mental Developement’, delivered at the Royal Institution on 6 Mar. 1868 Item 1869?
4 Printed pamphlet entitled The First and the Last Catastrophe: a Criticism of Some Recent Speculations about the Duration of the Universe, being the text of a lecture delivered by W. K. Clifford before the Sunday Lecture Society on 12 Apr. 1874 Item 1875
5 Printed pamphlet entitled Body and Mind, being the text of a lecture delivered by W. K. Clifford before the Sunday Lecture Society on 1 Nov. 1874 Item 1875
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?
9 Printed pamphlet entitled Right and Wrong: the Scientific Ground of their Distinction, being the text of a lecture delivered by W. K. Clifford before the Sunday Lecture Society on 7 Nov. 1876 Item 1876
11 Corrected galley proofs (of an article by W. K. Clifford entitled ‘The Influence upon Morality of a Decline in Religious Belief’, printed in the Nineteenth Century, Apr. 1877) Item c. Apr. 1877
13 Offprint of an article by W. K. Clifford entitled ‘On the Types of Compound Statement involving Four Classes’, reprinted from the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 3rd series, vol. vi (1878). Item 1878
14 Proofs of leaves from the Nineteenth Century, containing an article by W. K. Clifford entitled ‘Virchow on the Teaching of Science’, corrected by hand Item 1878
20 Galley proof of an article by W. K. Clifford entitled ‘Biological Apparatus’ Item 1870s?
24 The Spectator, containing an article entitled ‘Professor Clifford on the Sin of Credulity’ Item 6 Jan. 1877
1 Typed text of a lecture by Edwin Albert Power entitled ‘Exeter’s Mathematician (W. K. Clifford)’, delivered at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 10 Sept. 1969 Item 1969
5 Photocopies of pages from the Dictionary of National Biography containing the article on W. K. Clifford by Leslie Stephen, with a compliment slip from the Librarian of the University of Sussex Item 1970s?
A1 Letters to family members, an offprint of an obituary, and letters to Sir (William) Frederick Pollock File 1864-79
2 Letter from W. K. Clifford to William Clifford Item 17 Nov. 1866