Winterthur childhood

Growing up at Winterthur, among antiques and elaborate dinner parties, was quite an experience for the two daughters of Henry Francis duPont. The younger daughter, Ruth Lord, wrote a wonderful book about the experience. Being a young child in a home with antique bedspreads, she tried to play a joke on her father. She writes: Once I hid nearby after leaving an alarming “ink blot” made of tin on his antique bedspread; his composure returned only after my quick reappearance, and I never repeated the trick.
Read more in her book Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter’s Portrait By RUTH LORD published by Yale University Press, 1999. The first chapter is online at http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lord-dupont.html