Lydia van der Loop attended Farmington and graduated cum Laude from Vassar in 19 none of your business. She has lived in Manhattan and summered in Earle's Island, Maine most of her life, with a rather bohemian stint in Paris during her salad days, and a period of time spent in uruguay after The Late Mr. Van der Loop's passing. Lydia is in love with flowers, the finer things in life, and chocolates. She has an unerring sense of good taste, and makes it her business to further good manners throughout the world.
Flowers, lunch, comely hats, kidd gloves, nantucket, politics, the world at large, Chinese curios, pug dogs, The Tudor Dynasty and Anne Bolyn in particular, exotic furniture, young people, my grandson Charles, my granddaughter Pamela, Chinese takeout, massage.
