The Henson Journals

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Friday, May 7th, 1909.

A tremendous clap of thunder waked me shortly before 2 a.m. The sultry heat had seemed to become more than ever intense about midnight.

I wrote to Carissima.

Our hostess took us for a drive of two hours through most delightful country. We observed several birds unknown in England, & a colony of elks preserved within a wire fence.

My VIIth lecture dealt with "Proportion in Teaching". Incidentally I spoke of the Religious Press in severe terms. Bacon evidently shared my views: he showed me afterwards a cutting from a newspaper in which he was very unfairly abused for his book on S. Mark.

After lecture mine host & I walked to the top of the West Rock & looked at the 'Regicide's Cave'. On it someone had inscribed 'Opposition to tyrants in obedience to God 1803'. In that year, perhaps, the sentiment was more than commonly natural.

At dinner a Winnipago Indian, who is a student here, came & had much conversation with me.

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