Robert Green Ingersoll Collection 1884-1892

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Robert Green Ingersoll Collection, Accession 7025-f, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Robert Green Ingersoll Collection, Accession 7025-f, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Twenty-eight pages are clippings from the New York Evening Telegram, February 24, 1892, devoted to the "Great Ingersoll Controversy," in which Robert Green Ingersolland his agnostic views are both attacked and defended, and including his own answers to his critics. The rest of the volume contains clippings, 1884-1892, of contemporary interest on various subjects such as art, astronomy, foreign affairs, history, literature, medicine, politics, and religious matters. There is substantial coverage of W[illiam?] H[anna?] Thomson's address on materialism; Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst's denouncement of the New Yorkadministration, and conflicts with Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, William O'Brien Pardow, and others; Christopher Columbus; and vessels. Also included are numerous obituaries, including two lengthy notices of Walt Whitman's death, one of which is "Ingersoll's Eulogy of Whitman." Other obituaries include ones for Chester Arthur, William Astor, Henry A. Barnum, Joseph P. Bradley, Sidney Dillon, Theodore William Dwight, William Jermyn Florence, John Bartholomew Gough, Hannibal Hamlin, John Pope Hennessy, Charles Stuart Parnell, Max Strakosch, William Henry Vanderbilt, and James Watson Webb. ]

Acquisition information:
Deposit, 1991 February 26
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
1 bound volume