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- GLC#
- GLC04353.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 16 March 1886
- Author/Creator
- Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899
- Title
- to Charles W. Stoddard
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
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.
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