Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes by Andrew Field (Univ of Texas Press - Paperback - Oct 1985) might give this to Kate, but first make note a bit, maybe skim

epigraph - Djuna Barnes, The New York Tribune - February 16, 1919:
...Tell them almost anything, but give them facts.
-Facts, I said slowly-My God, have we come to that?...
-Oh, indeed, he said scornfully. -Are you going to be purely personal?
-I am -everyone is who writes well.

p163, chp XX:
There was a terrible vengeance, for Djuna Barnes now turned not only away from Thelma but also away from the very terms of their love. It is in Nightwood, too. Nora gives herself to a sailor in despair. In life, she began a close association with Charles Henri Ford ... He was very pretty (Barnes thought that his huges eyes went around the sides of his head just like an animal's) and very tough. ... Ford reviewed A Night Among Horses in an unsigned note in his little magazine Blues (No. 7) amd struck just the right tone
--In these stories of abnormality Miss Barnes reveals an astuteness of manufacture and an intellectual tension verging at times on genius or insanity. Aside from the poetry, derivative in most cases, every piece in the book is almost too deeply disturbing.--
Djuna Barnes remembered, surely, for four years later she endorsed the novel that Ford wrote in collaboration with Parker Tyler, The Yound and Evil, by stating
--This novel could only have been written by a genius or Charles Henri Ford.-- heh.
Gertrude Stein boosted the novel much less equivocally nice but it somehow failed to generate sufficient notice though it was one of the boldest of the expatriate publications.