122 Events
| Date | Location | Type of Event | Event Name | Description | Tour |
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| 1885 | Boston, MA | Interview | Boston Evening Record | Hell or Sheol and Other Subjects |
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| 1885 | Writing | Inspiration | article in “The Truth Seeker” annual |
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Sunday, January 11, 1885 |
New York, NY | Interview | New York Mail and Express | Religioius Prejudice |
Tour: 85A |
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Sunday, January 11, 1885 |
Academy of Music New York, NY |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Tuesday, January 13, 1885 |
City Hall Waterbury, CT |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Tour: 85A |
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Wednesday, January 14, 1885 |
Pittsfield, MA | Correspondence | Letter home | Tour: 85A |
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Wednesday, January 14, 1885 |
American House Pittsfield, MA |
Correspondence | Letter to Maud | Tour: 85A |
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Wednesday, January 14, 1885 |
Academy of Music Pittsfield, MA |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | very meager audience |
Tour: 85A |
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Saturday, January 17, 1885 |
Portland Theatre Portland, ME |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | full house |
Tour: 85A |
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Saturday, January 17, 1885 |
Falmouth House Portland, ME |
Correspondence | Letter to Maud | Tour: 85A |
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Sunday, January 18, 1885 |
Boston Theatre Boston, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Monday, January 19, 1885 |
Opera House Utica, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Tour: 85A |
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Tuesday, January 20, 1885 |
Opera House Rome, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | 300-400 people |
Tour: 85A |
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Wednesday, January 21, 1885 |
Academy of Music Auburn, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | audience of “goodly proportions”, but didn’t fill hall (blizzard in progress) |
Tour: 85A |
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Thursday, January 22, 1885 |
Windsor Hotel Gloversville, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to children | came from Auburn, going to Amsterdam |
Tour: 85A |
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Thursday, January 22, 1885 |
Memorial Hall Gloversville, NY |
Lecture | recent lecture noted in Amsterdam paper |
Tour: 85A |
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Thursday, January 22, 1885 |
Train Station Auburn, NY |
Miscellaneous | Conversation with minister | With Mrs. Ingersoll |
Tour: 85A |
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Friday, January 23, 1885 |
Academy of Music Oswego, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Tour: 85A |
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Saturday, January 24, 1885 |
Hodge Opera House Lockport, NY |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Saturday, January 24, 1885 |
Powers Hotel Rochester, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to children | Tour: 85A |
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Sunday, January 25, 1885 |
Court Street Theater Buffalo, NY |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Monday, January 26, 1885 |
The Genesee Hotel Buffalo, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to children | just starting for Rochester |
Tour: 85A |
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Monday, January 26, 1885 |
Corinthian Academy of Music Rochester, NY |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Tuesday, January 27, 1885 |
Wagner Opera House Bradford, PA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Tuesday, January 27, 1885 |
Bradford, PA | Correspondence | Letter to Clint | Tour: 85A |
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Tuesday, January 27, 1885 |
St. James Hotel Bradford, PA |
Correspondence | Letter to children | Tour: 85A |
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Wednesday, January 28, 1885 |
Breese Opera House Norwich, NY |
Lecture | Cancelled Orthodoxy | cancelled Norwich lecture (due to blizzard) – rescheduled to 2/26 |
Tour: 85A |
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Thursday, January 29, 1885 |
Metropolitan Opera House Binghamton, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Not the first lecture in Binghamton, but previous was a long time earlier. |
Tour: 85A |
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Friday, January 30, 1885 |
Opera House Amsterdam, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Tour: 85A |
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Saturday, January 31, 1885 |
City Opera House Altoona, PA |
Lecture | Cancelled Which Way? | part of Liberal League meeting – miscommunication with league? |
Tour: 85A |
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Saturday, January 31, 1885 |
Music Hall Kingston, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Tour: 85A |
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Sunday, February 1, 1885 |
Brooklyn Theater Brooklyn, NY |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85A |
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Wednesday, February 11, 1885 |
Kalamazoo, MI | Lecture | Cancelled ? | cancelled due to blizzard |
Tour: 85B |
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Thursday, February 12, 1885 |
Battle Creek, MI | Lecture | Tour: 85B |
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Sunday, February 15, 1885 |
Helena, MT | Lecture | Tour: 85B |
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Tuesday, February 17, 1885 |
Powers Opera House Grand Rapids, MI |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85B |
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Wednesday, February 18, 1885 |
Toledo, OH | Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85B |
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Sunday, February 22, 1885 |
Brooklyn Theater New York, NY |
Lecture | Blasphemy | First delivery of this lecture |
Tour: 85B |
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Monday, February 23, 1885 |
Albany, NY | Lecture | Tour: 85B |
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Thursday, February 26, 1885 |
Breese Opera House Norwich, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | makeup date for snowed out lecture of Jan 28th |
Tour: 85B |
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Sunday, March 1, 1885 |
Albaugh's Grand Opera House Washington, DC |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85B |
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Sunday, March 8, 1885 |
Bijou Opera House New York, NY |
Lecture | Liberty | ||
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Monday, March 9, 1885 |
New York, NY | Interview | New York Mail and Express | Cleveland and His Cabinet |
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Sunday, March 15, 1885 |
Bijou Opera House New York, NY |
Lecture | Orthodoxy | Tour: 85C |
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Sunday, March 22, 1885 |
Bijou Opera House New York, NY |
Lecture | Blasphemy | Tour: 85C |
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Sunday, March 29, 1885 |
Bijou Opera House New York, NY |
Lecture | How To Be Saved? | Tour: 85C |
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Monday, March 30, 1885 |
Hartford, CT | Trial | Law case | ||
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Tuesday, March 31, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to Clint | was in Hartford,CT yesterday on lawsuit |
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Thursday, April 16, 1885 |
New York, NY | Correspondence | Letter to children | will be in Hartford on Saturday, Boston on Monday, then Providence – location uncertain |
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Saturday, April 18, 1885 |
Hartford, CT | Lecture | Tour: 85D |
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Sunday, April 19, 1885 |
Boston Theatre Boston, MA |
Lecture | Blasphemy | Tour: 85D |
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Sunday, April 19, 1885 |
Paine Hall Boston, MA |
Miscellaneous | Attended meeting of Ingersoll Secular Society | Tour: 85D |
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Monday, April 20, 1885 |
Low's Opera House Providence, RI |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85D |
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Wednesday, April 22, 1885 |
Home Washington, DC |
Travel | Expected end of tour | Tour: 85D |
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Sunday, May 3, 1885 |
Opera House Cleveland, OH |
Lecture | Blasphemy | Tour: 85E |
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Monday, May 4, 1885 |
Detroit Opera House Detroit, MI |
Lecture | Blasphemy | Tour: 85E |
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Tuesday, May 5, 1885 |
Grand Opera House Ann Arbor, MI |
Lecture | Blasphemy | Tour: 85E |
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Thursday, May 7, 1885 |
Opera House Rockford, IL |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85E |
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Saturday, May 16, 1885 * Date is approximate |
Janesville, WI | Lecture | probable lecture shortly before Oshkosh |
Tour: 85E |
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Sunday, May 17, 1885 |
Columbia Theater Chicago, IL |
Lecture | Blasphemy | afternoon lecture |
Tour: 85E |
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Monday, May 18, 1885 |
Opera House Oshkosh, WI |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85E |
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Tuesday, May 19, 1885 |
Grand Opera House Fond du Lac, WI |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85E |
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Friday, May 22, 1885 |
Des Moines, IA | Interview | Des Moines Iowa State Register | Religion, Prohibition and Gen. Grant |
Tour: 85E |
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Saturday, May 23, 1885 |
Grand Opera House Minneapolis, MN |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85E |
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Sunday, May 24, 1885 |
St. Louis, MO | Lecture | Tour: 85E |
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Sunday, May 24, 1885 |
St. Louis, MO | Lecture | 2 lectures |
Tour: 85E |
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Wednesday, May 27, 1885 |
Aborn Hotel Des Moines, IA |
Interview | Des Moines Iowa State Register | Tour: 85E |
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Thursday, May 28, 1885 |
Grand Opera House Des Moines, IA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85E |
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Sunday, June 14, 1885 |
Supreme Court New York, NY |
Trial | Western Union vs. Bankers Telegraph | ||
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Sunday, June 21, 1885 |
Mechanic Hall Salem, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85F |
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Monday, June 22, 1885 |
Boston, MA | Correspondence | Letter to children | Tour: 85F |
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Monday, June 22, 1885 |
Opera House Lawrence, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85F |
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Tuesday, June 23, 1885 |
Manchester Opera House Manchester, NH |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85F |
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Wednesday, June 24, 1885 |
Whitney's Opera House Fitchburg, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Daily Sentinel says first appearance in Fitchburg |
Tour: 85F |
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Thursday, June 25, 1885 |
Holyoke Opera House Holyoke, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85F |
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Friday, June 26, 1885 |
City Hall Northampton, MA |
Lecture | Liberty | Tour: 85F |
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Saturday, June 27, 1885 |
Opera House Brockton, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85F |
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Sunday, June 28, 1885 |
Academy of Music Fall River, MA |
Lecture | Liberty | audience of 350 |
Tour: 85F |
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Monday, June 29, 1885 |
Boston, MA | Lecture | no ad/Review in Boston Herald – spurious? |
Tour: 85F |
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Sunday, July 19, 1885 |
Adams House Boston, MA |
Miscellaneous | Conversation with Buffalo Bill | possibly New York rather than Boston? |
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Tuesday, July 21, 1885 |
New York, NY | Trial | Telegraph case representing Edward S. Stokes | ||
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Wednesday, July 22, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Writing | Men, Women and God | preface to book by Helen Gardener |
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Tuesday, August 25, 1885 |
Long Beach, NY | Travel | Vacation | ||
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Tuesday, August 25, 1885 |
Long Beach, NY | Correspondence | Letter to household | ||
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Thursday, August 27, 1885 |
Long Beach, NY | Correspondence | Letter to Sue | had better deliver a few lectures in NH & VT |
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Saturday, August 29, 1885 |
Manhattan Beach, NY | Miscellaneous | Dogfight | Ingersoll’s mastiff involved in fight with minister’s dog |
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Wednesday, September 2, 1885 |
Cleveland, OH | Trial | Law case | ||
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Friday, September 4, 1885 |
Cleveland, OH | Interview | Cleveland Plain Dealer | Interviewing, Politics and Spiritualism |
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Saturday, September 5, 1885 * Date is approximate |
New York, NY | Interview | New York Truthseeker | Some Live Topics – location uncertain |
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Saturday, September 5, 1885 |
Cleveland, OH | Correspondence | Letter to children | ||
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Tuesday, September 8, 1885 |
Cleveland, OH | Correspondence | Letter to Clint | had been in Cleavland for 10 days on law case |
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Friday, September 11, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to household | mentions Rutland, VT – next Tuesday |
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Sunday, September 13, 1885 |
Albany, NY | Lecture | Belief | ||
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Tuesday, September 15, 1885 |
Town Hall Rutland, VT |
Lecture | Which Way? | ||
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Friday, September 18, 1885 |
Opera House Burlington, VT |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, September 24, 1885 |
Kearsarge House Portsmouth, NH |
Correspondence | Letter to children | dup of event 392? |
Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, September 24, 1885 |
Music Hall Portsmouth, NH |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, September 24, 1885 |
Portsmouth, NH | Correspondence | Letter home | Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, September 24, 1885 |
Philadelphia, PA | Interview | Philadelphia Times | My Belief – probably by correspondant |
Tour: 85G |
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Friday, September 25, 1885 |
Opera House Farmington, NH |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Saturday, September 26, 1885 |
Town Hall Exeter, NH |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, September 27, 1885 |
Opera House Manchester, NH |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Monday, September 28, 1885 |
Hayes' Opera House Rochester, NH |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, October 1, 1885 |
City Hall Newburyport, MA |
Lecture | Which Way? | Tour: 85G |
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Friday, October 2, 1885 |
Haverhill, MA | Correspondence | Letter to children | fixing up the lecture on Myth & Miracle – hope to have it alright for night |
Tour: 85G |
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Friday, October 2, 1885 |
Academy of Music Haverhill, MA |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, October 4, 1885 |
Boston Theater Boston, MA |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, October 4, 1885 |
Boston, MA | Correspondence | Letter to children | heading for Concord NH, then NY, maybe Cleveland |
Tour: 85G |
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Monday, October 5, 1885 |
White's Opera House Concord, NH |
Lecture | Liberty | First lecture in Concord |
Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, October 11, 1885 |
Cleveland, OH | Lecture | National Liberal League | Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, November 5, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to Clint | plans to be in Chicago on Nov 22, some city in NY on Nov 29. |
Tour: 85G |
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Saturday, November 7, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to household | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, November 8, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to household | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, November 8, 1885 |
Brooklyn, NY | Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, November 15, 1885 |
Academy of Music New York, NY |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Monday, November 16, 1885 |
New York, NY | Correspondence | Letter to children | looking at houses |
Tour: 85G |
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Tuesday, November 17, 1885 |
Hoffman House New York, NY |
Correspondence | Letter to household | renting 101 Fifth Ave |
Tour: 85G |
| November, 1885 | New York, NY | Travel | Ingersolls move from Washington to NYC | Tour: 85G |
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Sunday, November 22, 1885 |
Griswold Opera House Troy, NY |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85G |
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Thursday, December 10, 1885 |
New Haven Opera House New Haven, CT |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | Tour: 85H |
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Sunday, December 13, 1885 |
National Theater Washington, DC |
Lecture | Myth and Miracle | filled all the seats |
Tour: 85H |
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Saturday, December 19, 1885 |
New York, NY | Tribute | Wright Tribute |