Correspondence, 1840-1882.

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Correspondence, 1840-1882.

The correspondence of Victorine du Pont Kemble traces her life as a student at boarding school, as a young mother celebrating Christmas with her in-laws, and as the employer of a staff of domestics.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6720064

Hagley Museum & Library

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De Forest, Lockwood, 1850-1932

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Du Pont-Kemble-De Forest families.

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Victorine du Pont was the eldest child of Alfred Victor du Pont, senior partner in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and his wife Margaretta Lammot. She attended the boarding school of Charles Picot in Philadelphia (1840-1841) and in 1849 married Peter Kemble, the son of William Kemble, the company's New York business agent. She resided in New York until her death in 1887. One of her daughters, Meta, married the New York artist Lockwood de Forest in 1880. During the next two years, the coup...

Bauduy, Victorine du Pont, 1792-1861

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De Forest, Meta Kemble, 1852-1933.

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Kemble family.

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Kemble, William, 1795?-1881

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Du Pont family.

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Roosevelt, Elliott, 1860-1893.

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Kemble, Victorine du Pont, 1825-1887.

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Du Pont, Henry, 1812-1889

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Henry du Pont was born in 1812 at Eleutherian Mills near Wilmington, Delaware. He attended the Mount Airy Military School in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from 1823-1829 and then went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1833. As a Second Lieutenant, he joined the 4th Artillery at Fort Monroe in Virginia. On July 15, 1837, he married Louisa Gerhard and together they had 9 children, including Henry Algernon, Victorine Foster, and Evelina. In 1846, he was appoin...

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Weeks, John A.

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De Forest, Henry, 1820-1889.

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Picot, Charles, 1799-1861

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