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Robert Green Ingersoll Collection, Accession 7025, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase, 1963 January 2
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[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.]
[In her husband's absence, she answers an inquiry concerning an Ingersoll manuscript.]
[States that he has made corrections on a proof that was apparently lost and requests a duplicate.]
[Reports the sketch of Robert Green Ingersoll by Elbert Hubbard has been found and returns the extra copy.]