The Henson Journals
Fri 20 June 1919
Volume 25, Page 31
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Friday, June 20th, 1919.
About 6 a.m. rain began to fall, and continued falling for about 4 hours. The country was refreshed, but not really relieved. On all sides doleful records of the shrinkage & failure of the crops under drought are coming in. I muddled away my morning by writing a sermon for Eton, and a sheaf of letters.
Mr Phelps, the Vicar of Withington, came to lunch. He wants to resign his benefice though he is but 65. Lilley walked with me for an hour. Then more letters: and an interview with Albert Henry Bromfield, a Post Office clerk aged 36, who seeks to be ordained. He impressed me favourably, & I wrote a recommendation for a grant to send him to Cambridge. He knows nothing.
I wrote to congratulate Ellershaw on his appointment to the Mastership of University College, Durham. He is a worthy man enough, but hardly equal to that position. Kathleen departed in the course of the afternoon to join her parents in Bath.
The Festival of Corpus Christi is reported in the local paper to have been observed with much pomp in All Saints Church. This is, of course, grossly illegal, but I hardly see how I can make any protest, or take any effective step.