The Henson Journals

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Saturday, October 5th, 1918.

1524th day

A wet, warm day, very unpleasant. I stayed in bed until noon & then came down to my study. Here I wrote many necessary letters; made some additions to my King's College Lecture; and chose a sermon for Canterbury. Binstead, the Rector of Mordiford, lunched here, & afterwards went into the garden and advised the gardener as to the fruit–trees. Mr James came to see me; & I paid my insurance. Lilley came in, and I told him that there was no probability of the vacant canonry at Westminster being offered to him! A fire of wood in my study was excused by my infirmity, but my pleasure in it was damped by the melancholy foreboding which it stirred in my mind.

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