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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04353.06 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1880s |
| Title | Robert G. Ingersoll to Charles W. Stoddard thanking him for sending him the pamphlet The Lepers of Molakai |
| Date | 16 March 1886 |
| Author | Ingersoll, Robert G. (1833-1899) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | 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. |
| Subjects | Religion India Health and Medical |
| People | Ingersoll, Robert G. (1833-1899) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Health & Medicine; Religion |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |