Gillian Brendon Wilson

I am reminded of those long ago days in Culross Street, Mayfair, London which was then the home of the Hardy family from Cheshire. Who would ever have realised how you would create such splendid things at the Getty Museum in Malibu. Until I ran into you there on a visit I had no idea that you were there in such a significant capacity. It is a huge and lasting credit to your taste and abilities that you created so much whilst you were there and the legacy of your huge talent is there for so...

Gillian stayed with us at Netherton and took this photo of Francis Watson there. When Francis went to his office in the Rancher (with an awesome bathroom), he wrote to Brinsley Ford that the place was "run like a lunatic girls school," after the Staff did a sendup, "Les Sealed Feet," in the stream running down from the new Villa. July 4ths at her sister's Malibu Beach Club were always delightful. Known for wearing "that old Mac'" a lot, including a lecture at the Getty, I sent her F's...

Thank you for your incredible friendship. I was not worthy.