The Henson Journals

Sat 14 October 1911

Volume 17, Page 343

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Saturday, October 14th, 1911.

My letter appears in the "Times" in a very prominent place, and with a very prominent heading. It will make me odious to the Government, and suspected by the Nonconformists!

Mr Cecil Jameson, a colonial artist, lunched here, & afterwards sketched me for half an hour. Truly there's not much to be made of me that way!

The Bishop of St David's sent me a telegram thanking me for my letter. Archdeacon Bevan sent a p.c. to the same effect. The Dean of Lincoln suggests a memorial to the P.M. against Disendowment.

The Dean sent me a note telling me that Sir Tatton Sykes had offered a sounding board for the Abbey: that Lethaby was decidedly against erecting one: that he proposed to bring the matter before the next Chapter – informing Sir Tatton that there was little prospect of his offer being accepted.


Issues and controversies: welsh disestablishment