The Henson Journals

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Monday, December 29th, 1919.

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I wrote to Harold Cox, and C. R. L. Fletcher. The morning was frittered away in preparing for the little article on Church Reform which I promised. After lunch I motored with Ella into the country in order to make calls. Everybody was out though it rained 'cats and dogs'. The Bishop of Bristol called, & put up his car for the night. I wrote to Gilbert and Harold: also I returned his MS. of the address on Baxter's connexion with Bridgnorth to Predendary Clark–Maxwell. It was a very slight composition mainly put together from the Reliquiae, and containing nothing which I did not know already. Also, I sent a note to Claude Lighton asking him to stir up the farmer who undertook to transport my wood.

I bought a copy of Keyne's Book. It will stand with the mournful protests of Botha and Smuts as an indictment of the Treaty of Versailles. One can understand how great a calamity it was that the British Empire should have been represented by a shifty brilliant Welshman, advised by a cynical though charming opportunist. The "horse sense" and resolute honesty always touched with a chivalrous kindness which belong to the English temperament were the need of the world then.

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In the course of 1919, in addition to my normal subscriptions I paid:–

Jan 15th	Shropshire Archaeological & Natural History Society	£1.1.0.
"	Restoration of Goodrich bells	£1.1.0.
"	All Souls College, Oxford	£3.8.8.
April 1 st	Boy Scouts	£1.1.0.
"	Church Missionary Society	£2.2.0.
" 9th	G. F. Bulmer – Reconstuction Ctee	£5.0.0.
" 25th	Gilbert Simpson. Wedding Present	£10.0.0.
June 20th	Herefordshire General Hospital	£5.5.0.
" 21st	" Friendly Society	£1.1.0.
July 1st	S. Peter's Churchyard Fund	£1.1.0.
" 7th	Serbian Red Cross	£11.0.0.
" 15th	W. Garrold Lloyd, Esq.	£1.1.0.
" 22nd	C. J. Box – Ex–Soldiers' Fund	£5.0.0.
" 29th	Rescue & Preventive Assn	£10.0.0.
August 1st	Festival Charity Acct	£5.0.0.
Sept 20th	W. Collins	£1.1.0.
" 22nd	Hon. Rev. J. G. Adderley	£1.0.0.
–	–	£65.2.8.

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–	Brought forwd	£65.2.8.
–	Rents for the Hoardings at Durham	£21.0.0.
–	Freemasons at Durham	£5.0.0.
–	"	£1.0.0.
–	Typist Anson Memoir	£4.7.6.
–	The Oxford House	£2.2.0.
Dec 3 rd	Shropshire Parish Register Society	£1.1.0.
–	Clodock Restoration	£5.0.0.
–	Freemasons in London	£1. 1.0.
–	–	£105.15.2.

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