The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, July 9th, 1919.

I walked again to Adeney, & tried on the new clothes. Then to the club, where I found Welldon, about to start for Brookwood Cemetery to officiate at poor Knowling's funeral. We walked together to Westr; on the way we fell in with the Speaker. He asked me when the Anson memoir wd appear, & said that he had been asked to write the Life of Lord St Aldwyn. He said that he thought the attempt to bring the Kaiser to trial was a grave blunder, & that the best thing that cd happen wd be for Holland to refuse to surrender him, & to offer him a permanent residence in Java. I spent the day very fruitlessly in Convocation. At 5.30 p.m. I attended a meeting of the Harley Trustees in Bloomsbury Square. Accompanied by Mrs Pember I attended the dinner at the Mansion House given to the Archbishop & Bishops. We were fairly placed at the high table opposite the Bishop of London, & the Abp. of Armagh. The speeches were far too long, but the evening was not unpleasing on the whole. The Archbishop of C. said to me afterwards that he thought his views and mine generally coincided; but we expressed them differently. We got back to the Hotel about 11 p.m.

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