{"date":"November 21","id":"11-21","intro":["The beautiful daughters of the Circassians were in demand for the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan. Voltaire tells how these beauties were protected from smallpox centuries before modern vaccination."],"minutes":8,"readings":[{"author":"Voltaire","end":97,"start":93,"volume":34,"work":"Letters"}],"slug":"november-21","status":"proofread","title":"Bargains in Wives","url":"/harvard-classics/november-21/","words":1632}