The Washington Post, May 12th, 1997
On an April day 36 years ago, Eleanor Davies Tydings sat in one of the 40 rooms of her circa-1800 Oakington House in Havre de Grace, Md., and began writing her autobiography. This month, "My Golden Spoon: Memoirs of a Capital Lady" by Eleanor Davies Tydings Ditzen, her name now, goes into the bookstores. "I waited to publish it until some of the people died," she said. "I really wrote it for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren." The remarkably frank 411 pages tell of triumphs and tragedies and of the two men who gave her the greatest happiness and caused her the greatest pain: her father,...
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