The Henson Journals
Tue 27 October 1914
Volume 20, Page 47
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Tuesday, October 27th, 1914.
85th day
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Mr Watts, the curate of one of the hamlets near Durham, called on me with respect to arranging entertainments &c for the Durham recruits at Cocken. I did not receive him very sympathetically for I am rather sceptical as to the real value of all the fussy private effort which the war has generated. However I wrote to Lord Durham on the subject offering to do anything in our power, if the authorities can provide a room. Also I called on the patriotic bootmaker Thwaites, who is now busy with the organising of more recruit meetings. I attended Evensong in the Cathedral, & took Logic for a walk afterwards. Boutflower, the new master of Sherburn, lunched here with his wife. He is rather perturbed at the situation in the Hospital. Evidently, matters are out of hand. I gathered that he also was embarrassed by iste archidiaconus: & begins to realize that everybody privily works for him, & with him! Sykes from S. Ignatius, Sunderland, came to see me about the forlornest of all conceivable affairs – Church Defence!