The Henson Journals
Mon 12 March 1917
Volume 20, Page 8
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Monday, March 12th, 1917.
952nd day
A most beautiful day, though there was sharp frost last night. I celebrated at 8 a.m. Harold went away by the early train. I was busy all the morning completing a copy of my C.T. sermon – a tiresome business indeed. Ella & I walked out together in the afternoon.
The papers report the Fall of Baghdad. It seems to have been a fine achievement on the part of General Maude. The "Times" contains a long account of the City, and a resumé of its romantic history. I read this aloud to Ella after dinner.
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'The world only grows better, even in the moderate degree in which it does grow better, because people wish that it should, & take the right steps to make it better' – Morley