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Henry Festing Jones’s edition of The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) attributes “Lucubratio Ebria”, the unsigned article in The Press of 29 July 1865, to Samuel Butler, and prints an extract of the letter with which Butler sent it. Copy claim link
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Date 1865-07-29 · publication Records dated 1865 → Scope and limits An attribution by Butler’s editor and biographer, published 47 years later, not a contemporaneous credit: the 1865 article is unsigned. The covering letter is known here only from Jones’s extract. Read in a Project Gutenberg e-text that names no source printing.
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler ↗ A. C. Fifield, London, 1912; Project Gutenberg e-text (eBook #6173) · 1912
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Source excerpt “This second article was Lucubratio Ebria, and was sent by Butler from England to the editor of the Press in 1865” Location in source Section III, “The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit”, prefatory note, paragraph introducing Butler’s covering letter
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Source details and check notes Authors Samuel Butler; Henry Festing Jones Version Project Gutenberg e-text of the edition by Henry Festing Jones (1912), release of 3 August 2014, retrieved on 2026-11-04 by a model of another family (research/held-records-2026-11-04/codex-report.md, H04) and on 2026-11-06 by the session applying the correction, same SHA-256 (92661d82d316…). The e-text names no source printing; no printed copy was compared. Jones’s prefatory notes and biographical statement are his, not Butler’s. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-11-06 Language English (en) Attribution Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones (1912). Reuse Public domain in the United States (Project Gutenberg). Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Check notes Matched by the session applying the correction on 2026-11-06, after a model of another family read it on 2026-11-04 (research/held-records-2026-11-04/codex-report.md, H04). Jones’s words, introducing an extract from Butler’s covering letter. No human editorial review. secondary source Supports the claim
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler ↗ A. C. Fifield, London, 1912; Project Gutenberg e-text (eBook #6173) · 1912
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Paraphrase Jones’s chronology lists, under 1865, “Lucubratio Ebria” as an article containing variations of the view in “Darwin among the Machines”, sent by Butler from England, which appeared in the Press.
Location in source Biographical Statement, entry for 1865
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Source details and check notes Authors Samuel Butler; Henry Festing Jones Version Project Gutenberg e-text of the edition by Henry Festing Jones (1912), release of 3 August 2014, retrieved on 2026-11-04 by a model of another family (research/held-records-2026-11-04/codex-report.md, H04) and on 2026-11-06 by the session applying the correction, same SHA-256 (92661d82d316…). The e-text names no source printing; no printed copy was compared. Jones’s prefatory notes and biographical statement are his, not Butler’s. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-11-06 Language English (en) Attribution Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones (1912). Reuse Public domain in the United States (Project Gutenberg). Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Check notes Read on 2026-11-04 by a model of another family (research/held-records-2026-11-04/codex-report.md, H04) and on 2026-11-06 by the session applying the correction. Elsewhere Jones dates the article’s first appearance to 29 July 1865. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. Authorship as credited in the document. Does not imply sole authorship.
Date. Issue date of The Press, vol. VIII, issue 847, p. 2, in the Papers Past record.
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