"...the house was commissioned by Stephen Tennant's parents, Sir Edward and Lady Tennant.  The architect Detmar Blow, his assistants and a dedicated band of masons and carpenters worked on the site of an older, much-altered farmhouse; in March and April 1904 the original structure was carefully dismantled in order to re-use its materials... on 16th May, the new foundation stone was laid by Sir Edward's mother-in-law, the Hon. Mrs Percy Wyndham, who had seen the building of her own house, nearby CLouds, during the 1880s."  -- Sotheby's, By Direction of the executors of the late The Hon. Stephen Tennant, "The Contents of Wilsford Manor, Salisbury Wiltshire," October 1987.

"...dear, strange, beautiful, gifted Stephen."  (Vita Sackville-West, 1946)

The Spring Catalogue from David Deiss's Elysium Books (www.elysiumpress.com) is available and contains a copy of the sale catalogue of The Hon. Stephen Tennant's family home. 

The Elysium Books catalogue also includes a number of works by Robert Gathorne-Hardy, lovingly inscribed to Lady Ottoline Morrell (one suspects a cupboard was recently cleaned out at Garsington) and a variety of other treasures.  Highly recommended.

From "Memoirs of Montparnasse," by John Glassco, describing an evening out in Paris in 1928, at the age of 19, sitting at a table with Kay Boyle, Djuna Barnes and a collection of literary lesbians: "I felt out of place among these middle-aged women, whose faded asexuality was matched by the kind of fiercely possessive passion that is generally and more properly expended on cats and dogs."  John tries to persuade Thelma Wood, the beautiful girlfriend of Djuna Barnes, to leave with him and go to a cafe around the corner.  "Are you sane?" she asks him.  

His subsequent seduction of Thelma, (named Emily Pine in the Memoir) is disappointing -- he calls her a "torturer of hearts."  She appears as Robin Vote in Barne's "Nightwood."