The Henson Journals

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Monday, April 8th, 1918.

1344th day

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I cleared up my papers, gave Norcock some instruction about my books & letters, & went off to London. One of the choirboys, Norman West, came to see me. He said that the late bishop told the boys to see him when they left the school. On the platform the station–master introduced me to a Director who lives somewhere near Abbey Dore. I read through the Report of the Lambeth Ctee's Report in the train, & I like it less than ever. As I was entering Morley's Hotel I fell in with John Burns & had some talk with him. He was very pessimistic about the war, and spoke of his own "noble reticence"! His conceit is so simple that it ceases to be offensive. I dined at the Athenaeum, where I saw Edgeworth & Baker–Wilbraham.

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