PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00359::Robert Green Ingersoll Collection)//EN" "ViU00359.sgm" A Guide to the Robert Green Ingersoll CollectionIngersoll, Robert Green. 7025Processed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00359::Robert Green Ingersoll Collection)//EN" "ViU00359.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Robert Green Ingersoll Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7025

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7025 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Robert Green Ingersoll Collection 1909 7025 4 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Robert Green Ingersoll Collection, Accession 7025, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1963 January 2

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Manuscript Elbert Hubbardon Robert Green Ingersoll 1909 Aug 24 TMs, 16 p.

[Discusses English and Scotch ancestry and gives brief family description; reports on Ingersoll's military career and his rise in the Republican party; discusses his law practice and his career as a noted and highly paid lecturer who spoke against popular religious beliefs; lists the honors received by Ingersoll and his donations to charities; recalls his notoriety as an orator and provides excerpts from his lectures, his opinion of Bible translations, and on immorality, including critics' comments; gives the text of his creed ("My Religion"), his funeral oration for his brother Ebon C. Ingersoll, and the text of his poem "The Declaration of the Free." These last three pieces were read at Robert Green Ingersoll's own funeral.]

 Letters Alice Hubbardto Knickerbocker Publishing Company 1909 Aug 14 TLS, 1 p.

[In her husband's absence, she answers an inquiry concerning an Ingersoll manuscript.]

 Elbert Hubbardto Knickerbocker Publishing Company 1909 Aug 18 TLS, 1 p.

[States that he has made corrections on a proof that was apparently lost and requests a duplicate.]

 Beulah Hood, Knickerbocker Publishing Companyto [ Elbert Hubbard?] 1909 Aug 28 TLS, 1 p.

[Reports the sketch of Robert Green Ingersollby Elbert Hubbardhas been found and returns the extra copy.]