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    <title>Robert Green Ingersoll papers, 1826-1940 (bulk 1866-1899)</title>
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    <namePart>Ingersoll, Robert Green</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1833-1899</namePart>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 19,100.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.</note>
  <note>Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Phonograph discs transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Sheet music transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.</note>
  <note>Lawyer and lecturer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Blatch, Harriot Stanton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1940</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bok, Edward William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1930</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, Eva Ingersoll</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burroughs, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1921</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carnegie, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Conway, Moncure Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1907</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1926</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Dixon, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Farrell, Clinton Pinckney</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Farrell, Sue Parker</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fawcett, Edgar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1904</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1907</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fiske, Minnie Maddern</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fuller, Melville Weston</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gresham, Walter Quintin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1895</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harlan, John Marshall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1911</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hayes, Rutherford Birchard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holyoake, George Jacob</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1906</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Ingersoll, Ebon C. (Ebon Clark)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1879</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Ingersoll, Eva Amelia Parker</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Johnson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1875</namePart>
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      <namePart>Mulholland, John E</namePart>
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      <namePart>Oglesby, Richard J. (Richard James)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1899</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>O'Rell, Max</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1903</namePart>
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      <namePart>Palmer, Courtlandt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1888</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pillsbury, Parker</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1898</namePart>
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      <namePart>Probasco, Maud Ingersoll</namePart>
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      <namePart>Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1902</namePart>
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      <namePart>Reményi, Eduard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1898</namePart>
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      <namePart>Seidl, Anton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1898</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stanton, Elizabeth Cady</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1902</namePart>
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      <namePart>Traubel, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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      <namePart>Twain, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1910</namePart>
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      <namePart>Whitman, Walt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1892</namePart>
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      <namePart>Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )</namePart>
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    <topic>Agnosticism</topic>
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    <geographic>Illinois</geographic>
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    <temporal>1865-1900</temporal>
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