The Henson Journals

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17th Sunday after Trinity, October 11th, 1908.

A still beautiful morning, ideally autumnal. I went to S. Margaret's at 8 a.m., and celebrated. There were but a dozen commts all told, including Harold, who came in appallingly late.

Dr Charles arrived in good time for the Abbey Service: I took him in & introduced him to everybody. Then I went to S. Margaret's, where a large congregation came together. My sermon was dull, but well listened to.

Offertory = £14.0.3. Charles stayed to lunch.

There was a crowd in the Abbey at 3 p.m. when I preached for the East London Church Fund, not very successfully, since the offertory only amounted to about £22. Raleigh & his niece were there, & came to tea afterwards.

At 7 p.m. the Dean of Peterboro (Arnold Page) preached in the Abbey. He shouted tremendously but, though I listened hard, I could not disentangle the words sufficiently to 'make sense' of what I heard. He came in to supper afterwards, & professed himself a 'male suffragette'!

Damms, the new minor Canon & Choirhouse Master, came in also. He seems an able & keen little man.

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Issues and controversies: female suffrage