The Henson Journals

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Monday, November 25th, 1912. "Baltic".

This day I maintained my position on deck, and at meals: but with increasing discomfort. On Tuesday morning I appeared at breakfast feeling lamentable: & then collapsed before the malignant & waxing forces of the deep. Tuesday & Wednesday were spent woefully in my cabin: on Thursday I re–appeared on deck: & on Friday had resumed all the habits of normal health. But we had then got into the narrow seas, & left the Atlantic behind us.

We reached Queenstown about 4 a.m. on Friday morning, Nov. 29th: & there got in a stock of English newspapers. Three items of intelligence interested me variously. (1) Moneypenny, the editor of Disraeli's life has died, leaving his work unfinished. (2) Lansbury, the vapid Socialist, has been turned out of Bow & Bromley by a handsome majority. (3) A formidable list of Buckinghamshire laymen have protested to Gore against his proposed division of the Oxford diocese.

I finished reading Wells' "Marriage", which interested & impressed me. It is a strong book, saner than I looked for from that author.

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