| Evidence: | 'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 7 Jun 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Scotland. | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Probably Edinburgh. county: Lothian specific address: Possibly Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh. |
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Uncommitted. |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Probably Scotland. |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Kingdom Clifford |
| Title: | The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State |
| Genre: | Other religious, Science |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author. |
| Publication details: | In the June 1875 issue of the "Fortnightly Review". |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20266 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 141 | |
| Additional comments: | Section headed Monday [7 June] in Letter 394, To Frances Sitwell, Friday [4 June 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The dates in square brackets have been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20266, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Editors’ Note 2 on p. 141 reads:”In the June "Fortnightly" W.K. Clifford reviewed "The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State", an attempted reconciliation of science and religion, first published anonymously but later acknowledged to be by P.G Tait and B. Stewart.”. On page 87 of these Letters, Editors’ Note 6 to Letter 338, To his Mother, [5 December 1874], refers to RLS’s mention of Clifford as one of the people he had met that evening while dining at ‘the {Savile} Club'. The Note reads: “William Kingdom Clifford (1845-79), mathematician and metaphysician of brilliant promise. In ‘Memoirs of Himself’ RLS refers to his ‘irresponsible boyishness of mind and manner’ and says that he was then in the ‘hot fit of the most noisy atheism’.” |
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