The Henson Journals

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Thursday, January 3rd, 1924.

There was frost last night, and the weather was much colder during the day. I finished the sermon for the cathedral by lunchtime. In the afternoon I motored with our guests to High Force, hoping that there would have been a plenitude of water in the Fall: but I was disappointed, though of course 'twas a noble spectacle enough. I received a letter from my Godson and namesake Herbert Nicholson he is about to be married. George Nimmins wrote cheerfully from Port Said: and Gilbert Simpson sent me a letter characteristically filled with domestic intelligence.

I wrote to the Editor of the "Nineteenth Century & After" promising to send him an article on "Reunion" by January 19th.

It is necessary that I should realize to what I am pledged:–

1. Article for the 19th Century – February issue

2. Article for Edinburgh Review – April issue

3. Rede Lecture on "Byron" at Cambridge in May.

4. Sermon to Cambridge University. May

5. Sermon to Trinity College. Dublin. June.

6. Sermon in Westminster Abbey. July.

7. Charge to the Diocese in the Autumn.

There is more here than I can well manage, having regard to the continual and ever waxing demands of the diocese, and my increasing inability to work quickly.

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