The Henson Journals
Tue 15 August 1916
Volume 20, Page 450
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Tuesday, August 15th, 1916.
743rd day
A wet, depressing day with intervals of thunder. The morning post brought me a letter from Clarence Tait, who is now "at the Front". His letter is notable as containing a highly laudatory account of the Chaplains. I attended Mattins, and then spent the morning rather uselessly in trying to examine the changing senses in which the "Report" of the Archbishops' Committee uses the words 'spiritual' and 'principle'. We lunched with Mrs Simey, after which I 'cruized' in the cathedral, and soon picked up three wounded Tommies, whom I showed over the fabric & also the Deanery. An Australian trooper annexed himself to us on the way. Thus I occupied myself until Evensong, which I attended.