The Henson Journals

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21st Sunday after Trinity, November 5th, 1922.

I attended service in the college–chapel and indulged in a general resurrection of dead hopes and plans! I went to the University Sermon and heard Armitage Robinson preach an excellent sermon of the spiritually edifying type from the best of texts – "Come unto me, all ye who labour & are heavy–laden, and I will give you rest". He took much the same line of interpretation as Kenneth took at the Ordination in my chapel but with the difference between the men expressed in their sermons. I called on the Spooners, and on old Mrs Dicey. With the latter I had a brief and embarrassed conversation. After lunch, Frank motored me and Hester Pinsent, a niece of the late law Lord Parker, to Cornbury House, a wonderful old mansion dating from the 15th century but mainly built by the great Clarendon in the 17th, and now owned by a wealthy brewer named Watney. The owner most courteously showed us over the house, & told us the history. It is full of priceless pictures and fine old furniture. I was particularly interested in a full–length portrait of Edward VI, which gave him a far more attractive and boy–like aspect than the more familiar portraits. We returned to All Souls in time for me to get to Balliol, and preach in the Chapel there. After service I dined in Hall with the master, and drank wine in the Common room – a very dull business.

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