The Henson Journals

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Thursday, May 3rd, 1917.

1004th day

The fine weather continues. Life indoors will become intolerable! I attended Mattins; & worked at the Memoir. The Mayor called to announce that he & his municipal colleagues wd come in state to the Cathedral on Whitsunday, May 27th, being the Sunday after "Empire Day". The latter Festival is no doubt more intelligible to the bulk of citizens than the former. He had never seen the chapel or the kitchen, & was much interested by both. Hadow, Jevons, & Lillingston lunched with me (Ella had gone to Newcastle): & later they returned to the first meeting of the Committee on Social Problems, appointed by the Bishop of Durham, with Hadow as Chairman. We decided to meet fortnightly at the Deanery, & made Lillingston Secretary. After the Committee had dispersed I walked with Logic. There arrived a letter from Prof: Edward Moore of Harvard. He expresses the utmost satisfaction at America's entrance into the War, though his distrust of Wilson's leadership remains as strong as ever. "I feel that I can come to England again. At times in the last year I have felt that I never could. Your nation is very good to welcome us as you do, & not to criticize us as we deserve". This represents a mood far removed indeed from the "spread–eagleism" which we commonly associate with U.S.A.

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