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Papers, 1818-1892.

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Sophie Du Pont's voluminous correspondence contains more than 20,000 letters to family and friends. More than 1,000 of these are to her husband, Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, and they were written while he was on extended sea duty in the Far East, Mediterranean, or on the Atlantic blockade. The letters describe Sophie Du Pont's domestic life at Louviers and contain observations about the social, cultural, and political events of the period in which she lived. These letters show that Sophie Du Pont had a certain ambivalence about the role of women in society as she consciously struggled to balance her intellectual interest which her domestic obligations particularly during her husband's long absences.

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