The Henson Journals
Thu 23 March 1916
Volume 20, Page 715
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Thursday, March 23rd, 1916.
598th day
After breakfast I walked along the Embankment to the Athenaeum, and there wrote letters for most of the morning. I called in on Reginald Smith and talked with him for a few minutes. He said that about 600 copies of "Robertson" had been sold. This doesn't look like a success! I returned to the Deanery for lunch, & then walked back to the Athenaeum with Ralph. In the Club I had speech with Buckle, the President of Magdalen, Baker–Wilbraham, Sir Lewis Dibdin, & Firth. Then I returned to the Deanery, buying some toys for the children on the way. There came to dinner Major Carruthers & his wife, formerly Violet Markham. Also Linetta. All of them rage wonderfully against the Government, but, so far as I can see, for no intelligible reason.