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Robert Green Ingersoll Collection, Accession 7025-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit, 1964 November 17
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[States that religious sincerity is no guarantee against being deceitful, providing numerous examples of liars from the Bible, Jehovah not excluded. Includes two pages of typescript from the essay.]
[Argues against Christianity, claiming Christians do not turn the other cheek but rather have developed many sophisticated weapons.]
[Argues that lying and falsehood are essential to orthodox religion.]
[Thanks him for sending him the remarks of the Reverend A. Palmer which were stolen from his Steinway Hall speech; and calls Palmer a dishonest man.]
[Sends condolences on the occasion of the death of Mills' father.]
[Offers his condolence.]
[Denies that he copied his lecture on "The Mistakes of Moses" from a work by John Sherzer Hittel and offers a one thousand dollar reward to anyone who can prove it.]
[Mentions Judge John J. Brady and his gratitude for an invitation to dine with the Insurance Men.]
[Asks Pond to advise Baron Harden-Hickey, an expert on Indian matters who was introduced to Ingersoll by Edgar Fawcett on the possibility of lecturing on Indian philosophy and religion.]
[Compliments correspondent on his new political novel (no title given).]
[Promises his correspondent tickets for his lecture on Shakespeare at the Brooklyn Academy of Music . ]
[Asks Clifford to call the stock-brokers together to raise money before September 15, as he cannot depend on him for a dollar.]
[Writes concerning financial matters.]
[Regrets his inability to come to the Clover Club because he wil not be in the city at that time.]
[Requests the payment of $1,000 to "Ouida," as the agreed upon price of her manuscript on "Birds."]
[Insists that he has never been indicted for blasphemy in Delaware or in any other state.]
[Has instructed his agent to give Pond a box and regrets not receiving Pond's letter in time.]
[Has read Bell's article about himself in Bell's magazine; does not consider himself worthy of such praise but is deeply grateful; cautions Bell not to injure himself by praising him too much in Georgia . ]
[Returns a letter which he does not find worth answering; and promises to write something on the subject soon.]
[Keller wants Ingersoll interviewed on the prayers that were offered in Cleveland, Ohio for him but Ingersoll refuses. With ANS by William Reed Dunrey and Robert Green Ingersoll . ]