The Henson Journals

[53] [sic, duplicated pages 52 & 53]

Wednesday, December 3rd, 1919.

I wrote to Gow who is now recuperating in Madeira: also to Cruickshank, & Ker. I paid several bills which were due: & then cleared my table for a meeting of the Clerical Charities Committee. Hopton, Edwards, Simpson, Wright, and Lee lunched here, and then we all went to the meeting of the Diocesan Fund Committee, and spent the afternoon in arranging the annual grants to the poor livings.

Then I had an interview with Roberts, the Curate of All Saints: with whom I discussed the situation of S. at that church. Later I wrote to Canon Procter [Proctor] at Gloucester, who is S.'s Godfather, describing the situation, and suggesting that he should give his Godson some counsel at this very important juncture. I take blame to myself for ever consenting to the arrangement by which S. continued in the school, and only had Sunday work in the parish. It might have worked had matters been normal there, and he himself a less unusual type of man: but the change of incumbents has worked mischief, and S. has disclosed a temperament which stands in special need of the normal discipline of parochial life. It is a lesson to me to be less complaisant in future.

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