The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, October 12th, 1920.

I wrote to Dolphin enclosing a cheque for £25. Then I walked to the Athenaeum, & there spent the morning. Watkins again made his appearance and again was alarmingly affectionate! I turned up the account of Bishop Morton in the Dictionary of National Biography with a view to considering how far I could choose him for my model. He too lived in a revolutionary age: he was an earnest advocate of Protestant reunion, and an opponent of Laudian extravagances. He was an excellent administrator & had a certain taste for magnificence. 'He is described as small of stature, upright in person & sprightly in motion, preserving the vigour of youth in extreme old age'. His position as a churchman was that of Usher & Bedell. Among his friends was numbered Richard Hooker. His long life (1564 to 1659) covered a critical epoque of English History. Elizabeth had reigned for 6 years when he was born, and he died in the year before the Restoration.

I left Victoria at 2.35 p.m., and arrived at Birchington at 5.24 p.m., Marion was on the platform to meet me. I found Carissima cheerful and well, though frail and visibly aging. I wrote to Ella.

It is reported in the Times that "the only preserved original of the Bull of 1520 against Luther has been discovered in the Wurtenbury State Archives". This is an interesting discovery, & must provoke much thought in German minds.

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