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A Letter To Benjamin Franklin
Dear Mr. Benjamin Franklin:

I wanted to wish you a congratulations on your recent publication of the Gulfstream Chart in London. I hear it hasn’t been very well received in the community, so I am writing you this letter because of our connected interests in women's rights. This particularly sights in on their education, household habits, their right to vote, and the limited power of the husband over the wife, such as their children and marriage in the United States. John Adams , my husband, supports my interests privately and he currently suppresses it in publicly because of the office he holds. Though it did not, I thought that his position would help me. I approached both him and Mr. Mercy Otis Warren, my friend. Mr. Warren is with congress

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