The Henson Journals

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Monday, November 20th, 1922.

My letter on 'Divorce' appears prominently in the 'Times' and will no doubt provide the text for more abuse in the "Church Times" !

I called on Downing at the Ecclesiastical Commission, and communicated my anxieties about the subsidences in the Bowling Green. He promised to call Wood's attention to it.

Then I called on Vernon Storr, & discussed ecclesiastical politics with him. He is an attractive and sensible man.

I lunched in Park Lane, & then went with Lord Scarbrough to the House of Lords and was "sworn in". Then I picked up my bags at the Athenaeum, went to King's Cross, & returned to Auckland Castle. Clayton and William met me with the car at Darlington.

I went into Rees's shop, and bought the following books:

1. The Epistle to the Hebrews by E. F. Scott.

2. The Church in America by William Adams Brown.

3. The Belief in Immortality by I. G. Frazer, vol. II.

4. The Population Problem by A. M. Carr–Saunders.

5. Progress in Religion by T. R. Glover.

6. Liberalism, Modernism and Tradition by O. C. Zuick.

7. The Revolt against Civilization by Lothrop Stoddard.

These will provide provender for the rest of this year, and perhaps indigestion afterwards!

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