16 March 1886

Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899

Letter signed

Title: to Charles W. Stoddard

Thanks him for sending him the pamphlet The Lepers of Molakai. Takes issue with the discussion of Mosaic law and leprosy and states: "Of one thing I am certain: no leper was ever cured by prayer." Ingersoll was a self-professed agnostic and rationalist. Written in a clerical hand on the fronts of two sheets.

GLC04353.06

6 June 1877

Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899

Autograph document signed

Title: [The idea of immortality...]

Ingersoll writes a verse comparing immortality to the sea.

GLC05508.145

26 May 1884

Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Riblay

Writes that "there is no paper I know of containing the speech. W. C. P. Fanell of this city 1315. K. Street has published my lectures, including the extract you mention." Written on personal stationery.

GLC02505.25

1876 ca.

Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899

Broadside

Title: Soul stirring speech. Glowing Words Spoken to the Defenders of the Union.

This document is a reprinted copy of a newpaper page by the Indianapolis Journal. It is a transcript of a speech given by Colonel R.G. Ingersoll that is aimed at attacking Tilden's "Reform Democracy", which he associates closely with the rebellion.

GLC05778