| Description | Correspondence from Conwy Lloyd Morgan [1852-1936, comparative psychologist and philosopher].
/1 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 16 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, dated 17 April 1891. Lloyd Morgan writes that his letter was printed in 'Nature' without corrections and tells Lodge about the corrections he intended to make.
/2 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 16 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, dated 14 October 1893. Lloyd Morgan discusses the use and meaning of the words 'force' and 'energy' in scientific writing. He comments: 'You want your philosophy to be in close touch with biology and especially with physiology - I want mine to be in close touch with physics. And I think you and I can help each other, if it is not presumption on my part to say so'.
/3 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 16 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, dated 18 October 1893. Lloyd Morgan writes about the definition of 'force' and what it means to experience force. He writes that he, like Lodge, is 'not a shut-yourself-up-in-your-own-department sort of man'.
/4 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 16 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, dated 23 October 1893. Lloyd Morgan defines force as he understands it, writing that as a psychologist he is 'anxious to get people to grasp the difference between particular experience and the results of the analysis and generalization of experience'.
/5 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from University College Bristol, dated November 1893. Lloyd Morgan queries what Lodge means by a 'sense of force'. He expects that he and Lodge would be in 'healthy disagreement' about the general philosophy of nature.
/6 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 16 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, dated 4 January 1894. Lloyd Morgan discusses Lord Kelvin's address on force and the senses.
/7 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to C. Lloyd Morgan, dated 26 November 1924. Lodge discusses Lloyd Morgan's criticism of Relativity in Nature.
/8 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 5 Victoria Square, Cl[ifton], Br[istol], dated 30 November 1924. Lloyd Morgan discusses his ideas about perception and reality. He explains the projicient interpretation of direct sense-experience. He questions the view of Relativisits.
/9 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to C. Lloyd Morgan, dated 8 December 1924. Lodge discusses Relativity and its links to the Ether.
/10 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 5 V[ictoria] Sq[uare], Cl[ifton], Br[istol], dated 10 December 1924. Lloyd Morgan asks Lodge about the types of perception or observation behind Relativist theory.
/11 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to C. Lloyd Morgan, dated 11 December 1924. Lodge writes that he cannot reply in full until next week but comments: '[...] I don't believe in contact: I think all reception is distance-reception, provided you do not attend to the magnitude of the distance'.
/12 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 5 Victoria Square, Clifton, Bristol, dated 14 December 1924. Lloyd Morgan responds to Lodge's statement about contact and distance-reception.
/13 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to C. Lloyd Morgan, dated 8 January 1925. Lodge writes that his current series of radio talks on the Ether and 'Action at a Distance' may be of interest to Lloyd Morgan. He is sending the current Journal of the SPR [Society for Psychical Research] which contains an interesting article on animal intelligence.
/14 Letter from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 5 Victoria Square, Clifton, Bristol, dated 11 January 1925. Lloyd Morgan asks for a spare copy of Lodge's paper on 'Brain and Speech'. Refering to a previous statement of Lodge's he asks: '[...] on what observational data other than those gotten at first hand through vision is the Theory of relativity founded'.
/15 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to C. Lloyd Morgan, dated 13 January 1925. Lodge is sending his paper on 'Brain and Speech'. He replies to Lloyd Morgan's query about Optics and Relativity and comments: 'I regard the Theory of Relativity as an attempt (admittedly a blindfold attempt) to get hold of the Ether, - though Relativists will not be willoing to admit that yet'.
/16 Note from C. Lloyd Morgan to Oliver Lodge, written from 79 Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, dated 7 July 1931. Lloyd Morgan sends greetings to Lodge and encloses an unspecified item.
/17 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to C. Lloyd Morgan, dated 9 July 1931. Lodge discusses Lloyd Morgan's ideas about novelty in evolution. He writes that novelty is not necessarily unpredictable. He discusses the idea of new properties emerging from the aggregation of different parts or ingredients. |