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A Guide to the Robert Green Ingersoll Collection Ingersoll, Robert Green. 7025

A Guide to the Robert Green Ingersoll Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7025


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

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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
7025
Title
Robert Green Ingersoll Collection 1909
Extent
4 items
Creator
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Alice Hubbard
  • Beulah Hood
  • Ebon C. Ingersoll
  • Elbert Hubbard
  • Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Robert Green Ingersoll
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Item Listing

Manuscript
  • Elbert Hubbard on 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.]

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Letters
  • Alice Hubbard to Knickerbocker Publishing Company
    1909 Aug 14
    TLS , 1 p.

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

  • Elbert Hubbard to 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 Company to [ Elbert Hubbard ?]
    1909 Aug 28
    TLS , 1 p.

    [Reports the sketch of Robert Green Ingersoll by Elbert Hubbard has been found and returns the extra copy.]

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