The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, August 28th, 1917.

1121st day

Much rain during the night. The morning again woefully hot and humid. Sierra Leone domesticating itself in Northern England! "The loins of the mind" by consequence quite ungirt & nerveless! Ella went off to Fairlie after breakfast. I attended Mattins. No congregation. Then Lady Craik went away in a pouring rain: & at last I was free to betake myself to work on the "Memoir". I wrote to Stuckey Coles, and to Sir Robert Morant asking for biographical material. Ellershaw came in to show me the papers about Mr Wrenn, the young man whom he desires to have appointed as a Teacher of English Literature in the University. I wrote to Armstrong of Queen's for information about him, especially as to the measure of practical incapacity which his defective eyesight might involve. I attended Evensong, & then, clothed in a mackintosh & armed with an umbrella, I walked with Logic in the rain for an hour. On my return I wrote to George from whom I had received the following list of addresses:

1.	[symbol]	Write on	29th August	To SS. Titan, at	Colombo	c/o Dalmege Forsythe & Co.
2.	[symbol]	“	5th Sept.	“	Penang	“ Mansfield & Co.
3.	[symbol]	“	12th “	“	Singapore	“
4.	[symbol]	“	17th	“	Hongkong	Butterfield & Surre via Siberia
5,6.	[symbol][symbol]	“	24th & 30th	“	Shanghai	“via Siberia or U.S.A
7.	[symbol]	“	6th Oct	“	Kobe	“
8.	[symbol]	“	13th	“	Yokohama	“
9.	[symbol]	“	20th	“	Kobe	“
10.	[symbol]	“	27	“	Shanghai	“
11.	[symbol]	“	3. Nov	“	Singapore	Mansfield & Co.
12, 13.	[symbol][symbol]	“	10th & 17th Nov	“	Durban	Cotto & Co.
–	–	“	24th & 30th Nov	“	Capetown	“

George writes from Lamlash where his ship "with about 30 other boats" is "waiting for a convoy".

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