Record Number: 30395

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article (a fine article it was too; […]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 7 Jun 1875

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Nov 1850

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Kingdom Clifford

Title:

Review of 'The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Review article.

Publication Details

Fortnightly Review (June 1875)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30395

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenon

Editor:

Bradford A. Booth

Title:

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:

Written Monday [7 June 1875], from Letter 394, to Frances Sitwell, Friday [4 June 1875]–Monday [7 June 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing material in square brackets has been added by the editors.

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenon, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 141, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30395, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Editors’ Note 2 on p. 141 reads: “In the June Fortnightly [Review] W.K. Clifford reviewed The Unseen Universe or physical speculations on a Future State, in an attempted reconciliation of science and religion, first published anonymously but later acknowledged to be by P.G. Tait and B. Stewart.” See also Letter 589.
On p.87 of Letters 2, Note 6 reads: “William Kingdon 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’.”