The Henson Journals

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Monday, April 28th, 1919.

The snow had not wholly disappeared, and its survival had been assisted by a frost. I asked the gardener whether the fruit prospects were endangered. He thought nothing was sufficiently advanced to take any damage. Wynne–Willson came to go through the letters, and then I made my dispositions for departure. We left the palace in two cabs. Ella & Mary Webbe in one, and I with Harold & Ernest in the other. We travelled as far as Oxford together. There Mary & Ernest got out. Lord Muir Mackenzie joined us at Worcester. He had been week–ending with Lord Beauchamp at Madresfield. We were distressed at his frail & aged appearance. There were no porters at Paddington, but we did succeed in getting a taxi after some delay, & were driven to Garland's Hotel. I walked round to the Athenaeum, where I fell in with Sir Richard Harrington & Radcliffe. I took up the "Church Times" & read a review of the volume in which my King's College Lecture appears. It is hostile but less virulent than I had thought probable. The "Times" has a short letter from Templedisclaiming any connexion with the "Challenge", which seems to have definitely committed itself to Disestablishment.

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