The Henson Journals

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Friday, December 29th, 1922.

I worked at the sermon for January 7th. Ellershaw with his wife & son came to lunch: and were followed by the Bishop of Jarrow with Mrs Quirk together with their Winchester son & his boy. I showed them round the Castle, and they had tea. George Nimmins got a lift back to Durham.

I received the new licence for my motor–car. The exorbitant tax, £31, makes one's resentment against the execrable roads still bitterer!

The copy of the Loeb Classics, Herodotus iii is defective. No less than 16 pages are in an inextricable & inexplicable disarray. There are few more annoying circumstances than to find one's self 'held up' by a fault of this kind, when one is in mid–course of reading.

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