Just days before the First Women's Rights Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined members of the M'Clintock family in this home, where, surrounded by reform newspapers, books, and tracts, they gathered at the mahogany table in the front parlor to compose the Declaration of Sentiments, the blueprint for the women's rights movement. In a July 14, 1848, letter to Elizabeth M'Clintock, Stanton wrote, "Dear Elizabeth, Rain or shine I intend to spend Sunday with you that we may all together concoct a declaration. I have drawn up one but you may suggest alterations and improvements for I know it is not as perfect a declaration as should go forth from the first women's rights convention that has ever assembled." Four days later at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, the document was presented to the world as a bold proclamation for equality that would reverberate for decades to come.