Papers of Robert Green Ingersoll, 1877-1909.

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Papers of Robert Green Ingersoll, 1877-1909.

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The collection contains a biography of Ingersoll by Elbert Hubbard and correspondence with the Knickerbocker Publishing Company about the manuscript. The collection also contains 4 manuscripts by Ingersoll: 3 essays attacking religion, particularly Christianity and a manuscript quotation. Letters from Ingersoll discuss lectures, financial matters including a payment to Ouida, social events, Henry George, and an unsubstantiated charge of indictment for blasphemy. There are also notes of sympathy and replies to admirers. Judge John J. Brady, [Baron Harden-Hickey?] and Edgar Fawcett are also mentioned. In addition the papers contain a scrapbook, 1884-1892, re Ingersoll and other subjects of contemporary interest including William H. Thomson's address on materialism, the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst's conflicts with B.F. DeCosta and William O'Brien Pardow, and obituaries of prominent people including Walt Whitman. With these is an annotated telegram re prayers offered for Ingersoll in Cleveland, Ohio.

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University of Virginia. Library

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