The Henson Journals

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Friday, May 4th, 1917.

1005th day

Another warm bright day. If agriculture doesn't make the pace now, we deserve to starve presently. Another British transport is reported to have been lost – torpedoed in the Mediterranean with great loss of life. Two transports in as many days is alarming enough. I followed what has become my normal programme. Mattins, the Memoir, Lunch, the Potato Patch, Tea, Letters – voila tout! Charles Abbey came to see me. He makes fair progress at school, & will be 18 in October. Dennett informed of the highly inconvenient fact that Brown the assistant master has developed measles! Gee came in after dinner. He told me that he had been to Downing St, and seen the Patronage Secretary, who made inquiry about Simpson of S. Paul's as a suitable Dean of Carlisle. It is evident that my good friend's thoughts still run on 'preferment'. I understand also that there is a hitch about Philip le Mesurier's coming to University College. The difficulty is in the matter of his military service.

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