[Silliman, Benjamin]; [or Knapp, Samuel L.]:

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LETTERS OF SHAHCOOLEN, A HINDU PHILOSOPHER, RESIDING IN PHILADELPHIA; TO HIS FRIEND EL HASSAN, AN INHABITANT OF DELHI. Dedicated to John Quincy Adams, this work contains anonymously written letters collected from the New York COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, commenting on issues of the day, particularly Mary Wollstonecraft's RIGHTS OF WOMEN. Attributed by Shaw & Shoemaker to Samuel Knapp, though the Library of Congress gives Silliman as the author.

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