Robert Green Ingersoll papers, 1826-1940 (bulk 1866-1899).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 15,000 items; 61 containers plus 1 oversize; 36 microfilm reels; 24 linear feetSubject(s): - Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 -- Correspondence
- Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940 -- Correspondence
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 -- Correspondence
- Brown, Eva Ingersoll -- Correspondence
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 -- Correspondence -- Correspondence
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 -- Correspondence
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 -- Correspondence
- Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 -- Correspondence
- Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 -- Correspondence
- Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 -- Correspondence
- Farrell, Clinton Pinckney -- Correspondence
- Farrell, Sue Parker -- Correspondence
- Fawcett, Edgar, 1847-1904 -- Correspondence
- Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1822-1907 -- Correspondence
- Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1865-1932 -- Correspondence
- Fuller, Melville Weston, 1833-1910 -- Correspondence
- Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895 -- Correspondence
- Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911 -- Correspondence
- Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 -- Correspondence
- Holyoake, George Jacob, 1817-1906 -- Correspondence
- Ingersoll, Ebon C. (Ebon Clark), 1831-1879 -- Correspondence
- Ingersoll, Eva Amelia Parker -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
- Mulholland, John E. -- Correspondence
- Oglesby, Richard J. (Richard James), 1824-1899 -- Correspondence
- O'Rell, Max, 1848-1903 -- Correspondence
- Palmer, Courtlandt, 1843-1888 -- Correspondence
- Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898 -- Correspondence
- Probasco, Maud Ingersoll -- Correspondence
- Redpath, James, 1833-1891 -- Correspondence
- Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett), 1839-1902 -- Correspondence
- Reményi, Eduard, 1828-1898 -- Correspondence
- Seidl, Anton, 1850-1898 -- Correspondence
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 -- Correspondence
- Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Correspondence
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Correspondence
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Republican National Convention
- Agnosticism
- Gold standard
- Impeachments
- Practice of law -- Illinois -- Peoria
- Practice of law -- Washington (D.C.)
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Religion
- Tariff -- United States
- Vivisection
- Women -- Suffrage
- Illinois -- Politics and government
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
- Lawyers
- Lecturers
- Microfilm edition available, no. 19,100.
Open to research.
Diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, writings, lectures, family papers, financial records, legal file, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ingersoll's involvement in Illinois state and Republican Party politics; lectures and writings on agnosticism and religion; law practices in Peoria, Ill., and Washington, D.C.; and personal and family affairs. Other topics include anti-vivisection, the gold standard, impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction, tariffs, and women's suffrage. Includes Ingersoll's address before the 1876 Republican Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Family correspondents include Ingersoll's wife, Eva Amelia Parker Ingersoll; their daughters, Eva Ingersoll Brown and Maud Ingersoll Probasco; his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll; Clinton Pinckney Farrell; and Sue Parker Farrell.
Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Edward William Bok, John Burroughs, Benjamin F. Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Moncure Daniel Conway, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Dixon, Edgar Fawcett, Henry M. Field, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Melville Weston Fuller, Walter Quintin Gresham, John Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Jacob Holyoake, John E. Mulholland, Richard J. Oglesby, Max O'Rell (Paul Blouët), Courtlandt Palmer, Parker Pillsbury, James Redpath, Thomas B. Reed, Eduard Reményi, Anton Seidl, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Horace Traubel, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), and Walt Whitman.
Microfilm edition available, no. 19,100.
Microfilm edition produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.
Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Phonograph discs transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Sheet music transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.
Lawyer and lecturer.
Collection material in English.
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