The Henson Journals
Mon 14 May 1917
Volume 21, Page 47
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Monday, May 14th, 1917.
1015th day
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The morning is brilliant after the rain, the atmosphere warm but no longer sultry. Last night the chapel appears to have been flooded. The down–fall for a short time must have been almost tropical. Before breakfast I wrote a long letter to Ernest. The keeping up correspondence with the boys at the front is a sacred duty, but it consumes a vast amount of time and mental stuff. Now that the German submarines have made the security of the post doubtful, one is disposed to grudge this expenditure of one's vital resources!
I attended Mattins, & afterwards settled down to the Memoir until lunch. Then I worked in the garden until tea–time, after which I returned to the Memoir. Byron Dolphin called after dinner to ask me to make a short speech at the performance in Birtley. Then I read some more of Creighton's "Papacy" to Ella. Voila tout!