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THOMPSON, D. P.
MAR 27, 1893
March 27h 1893
May Wright Sewell
Chairman of a
Committee on a Worlds Congress
of Representative Women
Dear Madam-
Your communication of a late
date is just received at this Legation in regard
to the appointment of delegates by the Ottoman
Government to a Congress of Representative
Women - Auxilary to the Worlds Columbian
Exposition to meet in Chicago.
In reply [?] to say
your communication will be presented to the
"Sublime Porte" asking the appointment of such
delegates - but as you are doubtless aware the
Ottoman Government would be slow to act in
a matter so foriegn to every tenet of Ottoman
faith - as to send women delegates abroad
as representatives when such rights are de-
nied all women here at home in Turkey.
The matter will however be presented to the
Porte and the appointment of delegates asked
for - but I feel sure with but little hope of
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