Sophie du Pont: A Young Lady in America: Sketches, Diaries & Letters, 1823-1833.
[1987] · New York
by Low, Betty-Bright and Jacqueline Hinsley. [du Pont, Sophie].
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1987]. Square quarto, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters,192 pp. Fine (As New), in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: A window on the America of the Early REpublic is opened for us by young Sophie du Pont. Her father, E. I. du Pont, had come from France and in 1802 settled on the banks of the Brandywine Creek, four miles above Wilminghton, where he set up a gunpowder factory. A period of ten years in the family life of the du Ponts, newly settled in Delaware, is illuminated by Sophie’s letters, diaries, and sketches from1823 (when she was thirteen) to 1833 (when she was twenty-three), which have been discoverd in the du Pont family archives and organized into this charming book by its two researcher authors.” (Inventory #: 05202scs)