The Henson Journals
Sat 28 December 1918
Volume 24, Page 30
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Saturday, December 28th, 1918.
Ella and I were fetched in a motor, and carried out to Mrs Dillon's house, where we lunched with her & Captn Dillon. After lunch we all went to Dytchley, where Lord Dillon shewed us his very interesting pictures. He is himself a cultivated man, and he was evidently anxious to please us. In this benevolent purpose, he had complete success. Sir Walter Scott's Sir Henry Lee appears to be an invention of the novelist, but Sir Bevis may have been suggested by the picture of an earlier Sir Henry Lee wh. includes a fine mastiff.