The Henson Journals

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Monday, September 3rd, 1917.

1127th day

I wrote to Marion in my bed–room before breakfast. Lady Scarbrough & her daughter left early: after breakfast I walked for nearly an hour with Lady L. talking gossip & scandal! Then I returned to Durham: at Chester–le–Street I fell in with Judge Greenwell.

I attended Evensong, & then wrote letters to Harold Anson, George, Headlam, and Ella.

The evening, which was again wet, was rendered the more melancholy by evil news that the Russians are evacuating "the Riga district", the troops continuing untrustworthy. It seems that Russia is on the verge of breaking up into fragments.

I am more than ever astonished that the Church, so far as is known, plays no part in the development of events.

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