Papers of W. K. Clifford

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
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
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?
4 Letter from Charles Colbeck to Frederick Pollock Item 6 May 1876
5 Cutting from a newspaper, containing a review of Clifford’s Lectures and Essays Item 1879
10 Leaf from The Echo, probably kept for the sake of a letter on atheism Item 14 Jan. 1880
14 Cutting from the Daily News, containing an obituary notice of W. K. Clifford Item 6 Mar. 1879
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 Paper entitled ‘On Theories of the Physical Forces’ Item 1870
4c Translation of part of 'The Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans’ Item 1873
A8 Letters to Frederick Pollock about W. K. Clifford File 1876-8
2 Letter from W. K. Clifford to William Clifford Item 17 Nov. 1866
7 Letter from W. K. Clifford to William and Mary F. Clifford Item 12 Sept. 1868