Sophie du Pont, Young Lady in America 1823-1833, delightful artwork, text

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This nice volume is "Sophie du Pont, a Young Lady in America, Sketches, Diaries and Letters 1823-1833'' by Betty Bright Low and Jacqueline Hinsley and published in 1987 as a first edition by Harry N. Abrams.
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 Wilmington, Delaware, where he set up a gunpowder manufactory. A period of 10 years in the family life of the du Ponts, newly settled in Delaware, is illumined by Sophie's letters, diaries and sketches from 1823 (when she was 13) to 1833, which have been discovered in the du Pont family and company archives and organized into this charming book by its two researcher authors. Readers today will be both entertained and informed by Sophie's vignettes, written and drawn, and will be touched by the insights they give into the thoughts of a very young woman coming of age in a very young country.
The hardcover volume measures 9 by 10 1/4 inches and contains 192 pages. It features 160 illustrations, including 75 in full color. The boards are red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt decorative device on the front. The volume is clean, unmarked and in like-new condition. The unclipped dust jacket also is in excellent shape.
ISBN 0810911361
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